We have a returning President that doesn’t think much of his General’s saying they will follow the Law and Military Protocol ….
A guy who has ‘said’ he wants to use the troops ‘against his enemies and protesters….
A guy who says he wants the US Military to be a extention of ‘HIMSELF’ NOT American Government …
And with a LOUD choras of outraged and dispaleasure from those who served the last time?
The Pentagon General’s and staff ARE NOT happy and Worried ….
The trepidation harks back to Trump’s first term, when he smashed norms and frequently clashed with senior Pentagon leaders — including several of his own political appointees. He has shown no signs of altering course this time around, stating throughout his campaign an intent to use military force against the “enemy from within,” to fire any military officer associated with the chaotic evacuation from Afghanistan after he left office in 2021, and to reverse what he and his supporters have denounced as “woke” decisions by the Biden administration that include renaming several Army bases that had honored Confederates.
“The greatest danger the military faces” under a second Trump presidency is a “rapid erosion of its professionalism, which would undermine its status and respect from the American people,” said Richard Kohn, a professor and military historian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “Mr. Trump does not have a real understanding of civil-military relations, or the importance of a nonpartisan, nonpolitical military.”….
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Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has been in his Senate-confirmed role since October 2023 with a four-year assignment, while the top officers in each of the services stepped into their roles last year. Historically, those assignments last three years.
Trump, as commander in chief, has the authority to remove any of them at will. Such a move could risk political backlash from retired generals and lawmakers from both parties who evaluated and approved those nominations, but doing so also would allow him to appoint someone else he perceives to be more loyal to him and his agenda….
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