We've noted before that not only are we getting tired of writing these scenes, we suspect that the reader is getting tired of these scenes.
We kept the cabinet meetings to an absolute minimum in Castro's Folly. During the entire first half of the book showing fighting in Honduras and Angola not one single cabinet meeting takes place. Still they crept in later on when the US is gathering a coalition to invade Cuba. Even so some readers complained that they didn't really know what was happening.
Cabinet meetings work great for that because they give on a bird's eye view.
We've been binge watching Game of Thrones season 7. There's a lot of meetings between Danarys, Tyrian, etc, etc and we've found these both informative and fascinating.
Maybe we should rethink scaling back the cabinet meetings.
I think the best part of Red Storm Rising is the first third or so of the book before the war really gets rolling. Perhaps what might work better is you don't name the president and have him do what you want(kinda moot for this series I know).
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