On November 13th, 2024, Trump, who was elected President of the United States in the new election, announced the nomination of Tulsi Gabbard as the next Director of National Intelligence.

The Director of National Intelligence is responsible for the overall coordination of 18 intelligence agencies in the U.S. intelligence community. It is the highest position in the U.S. intelligence community and the top intelligence adviser to the president. However, a review of Gabbard's personal resume reveals that she has no intelligence-related work experience.

So, what are the strategic considerations behind Trump’s unusual nomination? It all starts with Gabbard’s legendary experience.

A woman of brilliant talent, but become the target of public criticism

Tulsi Gabbard was born on April 12th, 1981, on the island of American Samoa in the southwestern South Pacific. Her father, Mike Gabbard, is a Polynesian with Samoa aboriginal ancestry. Mother Carol Gabbard is white from Indiana, USA. When Gabbard was 2 years old, their family moved from American Samoa to Hawaii.

Gabbard's family is religiously diverse. Her father was a Catholic and her mother was a devout Hindu. According to Gabbard, her family situation immersed her in a multicultural and multifaith environment from an early age.

Gabbard even has a Hindu Sanskrit name - "Tulsi". The name refers to an indispensable "sacred herb" in Hindu religious rituals and the incarnation of the Hindu goddess "Tulasi" in the human world.

Because Gabbard's mother believed that the educational philosophy in the school would conflict with her Hindu teachings, Gabbard's primary and secondary education was completed at home by teachers. It wasn't until high school that Gabbard left home for the first time to study. The place of study was also a local Hindu religious seminary in Hawaii, which was not a real high school.

As an adult, Gabbard has been actively involved in various local non-governmental organizations in Hawaii, extensively involved in public service activities, and used this as an opportunity to enter the Democratic Party.

In 2002, at the age of 21, Gabbard was elected to the Honolulu City Council, becoming the youngest female city councilor in U.S. history.

In 2004, after Gabbard's first term as a city councilor ended, she did not stay on the council to develop her career, but chose to join the military. The reason for making such a choice was mainly because the 9/11 terrorist attacks had a huge impact on Gabbard's thinking. She wanted to realize her ambition to defend the country by joining the army, so she joined the U.S. Army National Guard.

Later, she volunteered to go to the battlefield in Iraq and joined the U.S. battlefield medical team. She was awarded the Combat Medical Badge approved by the U.S. Department of the Army for her outstanding performance.

After completing her service, Gabbard entered the officer reserve class at the Alabama Military Academy. In 2007, due to her outstanding performance, she became the first female cadet in the history of the academy to graduate with the title of "Cadet with the Highest Honors", thus bringing a perfect end to her military academy career.

In 2008, Gabbard was sent to Kuwait to train Kuwaiti National Guard soldiers, and then retired from active service at the rank of lieutenant colonel and transferred to the reserves. Her training in the military gave her the qualities of perseverance, bravery and fearlessness, which also provided a solid foundation for her to display her talents in the political arena in the future.

Soon, she stood out and served as a congresswoman again. Soon after, she was elected as the vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee within the Democratic Party.

Just when Gabbard was at the height of her political career within the Democratic Party, a major event occurred that completely changed the trajectory of her career.

In 2016, on the eve of the US presidential election, the Democratic Party held primary elections. At that time, all Democratic Party votes were required to vote for Hillary Clinton to run for President of the United States, but Gabbard insisted on her political views and cast her vote for then Senator Bernie Sanders, an independent.

This move undoubtedly touched a raw nerve of the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party intends to take this opportunity to retaliate against Gabbard, and Sanders himself provided the Democratic Party with a "reasonable" opportunity.

Because Sanders promotes "democratic socialism" in the United States and emphasizes improving the interests of the middle class and the proletariat, he is slandered as the "American Nightmare". Democrats have cleverly used Sanders' identity as the Democratic Socialist of America against Gabbard.

When Gabbard talked about her support for Sanders on the podcast, the Democratic Party began to frantically hype Sanders as a non-partisan democratic socialist on social media, and further extended the topic of Gabbard, as the vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee, supporting people with democratic socialist ideas to participate in the US presidential election, criticizing Gabbard for wanting to promote democratic socialism in the United States. Since then, Gabbard was labeled by the Democratic Party as an "evil Russian agent".

Change course after betrayal, separation, and disappointment

The Democratic voting incident in Gabbard has led to the blatant exclusion of her by the Democratic Party, constantly squeezing her development space.

In 2020, when the Democratic Party held its national convention, Gabbard became the only primary representative candidate who was not invited to attend. This shocked and disheartened her.

Gabbard believes that the political style of the Democratic Party has completely deviated from its original intention of protecting "freedom and democracy" in the United States, and has become an anti-freedom and anti-democratic party.

She even publicly stated in the interview that in the Democratic camp, the then US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were not the ones with real power, and the real political masterminds were people like Tony Blinken and Jake Sullivan, who were "long-standing Washington establishments".

These "masterminds" are powerful within the national security apparatus and often abuse their power. They weaponize American government institutions and undermine American freedom and democracy. They instructed the FBI to search Mar-a-Lago, former President Trump's private residence, in order to satisfy the revenge of the "deep state". Their status will never be allowed to be overtaken, and their scandals will never be allowed to be exposed. This Democratic Party is hopeless.

The last straw that broke Gabbard's trust in the Democratic Party was the Ukraine crisis that broke out in 2022.

In the early days of the war, the U.S. government under the leadership of the Democratic Party decided to support Ukraine. The United States, which had just ended the war in Afghanistan, actually wanted to intervene in a war on non-U.S. territories. This decision of the Biden administration caused Gabbard to completely break with the Democratic Party.

Gabbard charged that the Biden administration's aid to Ukraine could anger Russia and that tensions between the two superpowers could even drag the United States into a nuclear war.

She denounced the Democratic Party as "a century-old rotten party composed of warmongers and elitists". These people have turned the Democratic Party into a warmonger closely linked to the military-industrial complex. They ignore the safety of American military personnel and the development interests of taxpayers. , fighting wars around the world and selling weapons only to satisfy the interests of the military-industrial complex.

Such a Democratic Party was inherently corrupt, so Gabbard made a major decision - to quit the Democratic Party.

Gabbard, who has suffered political setbacks, still cherishes the desire to "save America".

Gabbard's departure from the Democratic Party was widely hyped on social media, and it quickly attracted the attention of Trump's team.

Given Gabbard's political views and her outstanding work ability, Trump's Republican camp extended an olive branch to Gabbard and invited her to join the Republican Party.

And Gabbard herself knows very well that under the two-party system in the United States, if you still want to show off your skills in the political arena and realize your political ambitions, you must leave the rotten Democratic Party camp and turn to another big platform-the Republican camp.

Therefore, Gabbard frankly expressed her hope to join the Trump team in an interview.

Trump also considered that Gabbard is a former senior member of the Democratic Party. If the Republican Party can recruit such a banner figure, it will definitely be a major blow to the Democratic Party. The morale of the Democratic Party would be weakened, while the momentum of the Republican Party would be stronger.

Because of their mutual interests, Trump offered her an opportunity to realize her political ambitions. In October 2024, Gabbard publicly announced that she would officially join the Republican Party and support Trump's campaign to be the next President of the United States.

Wisdom and courage, help the election as a counselor

Gabbard, who has great ambitions and has gone through many hardships, there is no doubt about her work ability and cognitive level.

During the campaign to support Trump's election, Gabbard was able to maintain clear logic, fluent language, and ease in responding to various questions despite the intense speeches and interviews. They all left a good impression of elite women in front of the camera.

Gabbard herself has many dazzling labels. She is an elite female politician, a minority of color, a reserve battlefield veteran, a former top Democratic Party member who turned to the Republican Party, and the first female veteran to try to run for President of the United States... These labels have attracted countless attention to Gabbard, brought additional traffic, and can arouse the support of most people. Her extensive influence, superb political literacy, has won a massive number of votes for Trump's election in her speeches.

In her speech, Gabbard repeatedly mentioned her experience of serving on the front lines in Iraq and fighting for the United States through life and death. This experience first showed her absolute loyalty to the United States and even her willingness to sacrifice her life.

Gabbard has repeatedly expressed in front of the media that she is worried about the country she loves, because the U.S. government under the leadership of the Democratic Party has been coerced by the military-industrial complex and has turned the United States into a war machine.

The lives and property security of the American people have been destroyed, and freedom and democracy too. At this point, Gabbard’s attitude toward war coincides with Trump’s, and she firmly supports his determination to stop the war.

When the majority of voters heard Gabbard's sincere speech, they could no longer hold back the "anti-war" ripples in their hearts.

Do whatever she can to support the Trump regime

After joining the Republican Party, Gabbard quickly began to show off her skills and actively "punched" the Democratic Party on various platforms to win votes for Trump.

She said many times that her experience in the Democratic Party made her realize that the current Republican Party is the party that truly represents the interests of the United States, while the Democratic Party is a crazy warmonger who only cares about feeding the military-industrial complex through abuse of power.

Trump promised to end wars rather than start them, but the Democrats weaponized the federal government, law enforcement and judicial departments, pushed the United States into the vortex of war by manipulating these departments, and then sold weapons to feed the military-industrial complex and tie the United States to War chariot.

If patriotic Americans want to change this situation and save America, they should vote for Trump, who has the fearless courage and determination to root out the morass of Washington politics. He is the man most likely to save America and make America great again.

This allowed Gabbard to win more votes for Trump in the general election and made great contributions. At this time, Trump's reward for Gabbard based on her merits can play a role in stabilizing the morale of the military.

Since Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate has been closely searched by the FBI, the US intelligence agency, he has long distrusted the US intelligence community, believing that the US intelligence community is nothing more than a tool for the deep state to promote decision-making, and hopes to be completely reform the US intelligence agencies.

Gabbard has strong work abilities, although she has never been involved in intelligence positions, which also indicates that she has less contact with stubborn forces in the US intelligence agencies and will not greatly undermine the intelligence reform that Trump intends to promote.

For Trump, letting such a solid advocate manage the U.S. intelligence community can ensure to the greatest extent the smooth implementation of the intelligence community reforms he expects to promote, which will further reduce the instability of his administration.

It can be speculated that in the future, Gabbard will fully support Trump's intelligence reform plan to eradicate corrupt forces in intelligence agencies and make the future US intelligence community truly serve US interests.

Both Gabbard and Trump have said there should be a quick end to the wars the United States is involved in.

Because Gabbard has been sent to the front lines twice, she is well aware of the cruelty of war and is a staunch anti-war activist. Therefore, she strongly supports Trump's decision-making on the war.

She stressed the need for the United States to stop the Ukraine crisis and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and stop being involved in ongoing "regime change wars."

She also believes that the new Cold War and nuclear arms race in which the United States is involved is costing American lives and wasting trillions of dollars. These funds should have been invested in domestic needs such as health, education, and infrastructure, but now they are being continuously channeled to foreign battlefields, and these political concepts are perfectly in line with Trump.

It can be inferred that if Gabbard becomes the director of national intelligence, she may coordinate intelligence forces to help the Trump administration try to stop the two wars the United States is indirectly involved in, and mobilize the power of the intelligence community to support Trump's various decisions.