Nobody seems to be running the saner version of this headline, which is that our top military leader conspired with a foreign power outside the civilian chain of command.pic.twitter.com/zdcx5sBuU4
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Twitter is a wonderful place where people can attack the US military for trying to sabotage Biden in Afghanistan and the next day praise the same military for sabotaging Trump. But opinions on fundamental structural issues shouldn't change depending on whose team is in power.
If "generals doing their own things because the president sucks" isn't a huge red flag and doesn't remind several specific incidents, I don't know what should.
this happened w/ SecDef Schlesinger under Nixon, but in this case we had an acting SecDef who was a Trump loyalist installed possibly with the purpose of obstructing chain of command, so for Milley… damned if you do, damned if you don’t. & some of it was a poker face to PLA.
There was something about this in that documentary about learning to love the bomb.
the cjcs has no operational authority over the armed forces. he's an advisor and coordinates for president. secdef is not elected either; appointed same as cjcs. i don't understand where your distinction between the two are
One is a civilian.
A critical aspect of corruption is that it feeds forward: reduced faith in institutions is used to justify acting outside the system.
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