Gutting State

Some thoughts at the Diplomat on Tillerson’s bonfire:

A recent Vanity Fair report on the Rex Tillerson-led State Department made for harrowing reading.  The workforce at State is shrinking, applications for new positions are shrinking, and morale is startlingly low. This article is hardly the only report to emerge regarding Tillerson’s mismanagement of the State Department. While some were initially hopeful that Tillerson would bring useful international business experience to DoS, it appears that Tillerson has approached State from a commercial perspective: trying to run the department in the same way he ran Exxon, despite substantial differences in culture and mission.