just imagine if generals Salan and Massu had come to this conclusion in Algiers in May 1958
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I'm very curious to see who's going to win the fight over renaming Confederate-themed bases.
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The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the Chief of the National Guard released public letters reminding charges of the oath they swore to the constitution and urging them to reject illegal orders *on the same day* and it was barely mentioned.
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it's quite clear that very respected senior leaders pressed the 'panic' button and that it cleared a lot of the emerging fog of war.
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#GeneralMarkMilley@thejointstaff has the expedient hindsight after-the-fact when he needs to politically, but no effective judgement ahead of a decision? OK Let that sink in cc@realDonaldTrump@POTUSThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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He may have learned something from what happened to Trump’s pathetic lapdog Navy Secretary, Thomas Modly, eight weeks ago.https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2020/04/07/navy-secretary-resigns-capping-24-hour-theodore-roosevelt-fiasco/ …
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A lot of revolutions really got moving when the army refuses to fire on demonstrators.
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Which would never be the case in the US. "Just following orders" & "this wouldn't have happened if they were just obeying the law" is the present zeitgeist for government truculence.
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Most of this was settled a long time ago. My guess is everyone in the military knows the role it has to play in a liberal democracy. The debate is who's going to educate the President on that.
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The ethnic and racial composition of the US Armed Forces plays a big role in this.
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40% enlisted are minorities. They faced a morale issue on ovreseas deployments.
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