Article snippet: Most popular on bostonglobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories WASHINGTON — President Trump has packed his Cabinet with more generals than any president since World War II. One of his favorite movies is “Patton,” he owned a football team in the 1980s called the New Jersey Generals, and he’s often touted his relationship with the military brass. But despite Trump’s deep affinity for the armed forces, he is a historically inexperienced commander in chief now dealing with an array of problems that have vexed each of his predecessors as well. Wars in Syria and Afghanistan. Warlike talk coming out of North Korea, not to mention missiles. Nose to nose with Vladimir Putin on several fronts. And who knows what comes next. Assessments of Trump’s capacity to deal with such challenges break down along familiar lines. To his critics, he has struggled to demonstrate he has a plan or any coherent approach to dealing with the world’s most intractable problems. To his supporters, he is refreshingly willing to take risks and prepared to yield to his military advisers. And now, courtesy of North Korea’s unpredictable leader, Trump has a huge and immediate threat to contend with, one that arrived early on his presidential learning curve. Just before he departed for crucial meetings in Europe on his second foreign trip, North Korea, which is developing nuclear weapons, demonstrated that it has the ability to fire a ballistic... Link to the full article to read more