Seven Days in January

Mr McClarey looks at  Gen. Milley's complete betrayal of the Constitutional guarantee of civilian control of the military.

From The American Catholic

By Donald R. McClarey, JD

I prefer the Burt Lancaster version of a coup (see video at the end of the post).  It is interesting that the same people in government who attacked Trump for not respecting norms and procedures, have demonstrated over and over again that they would stop at nothing, absolutely nothing, in their war against Orange Man Bad.  General Milley is not only a buffoon but a dangerous buffoon who does not understand civilian control of the military, something that was presumably drummed into him when he was an ROTC cadet.   I know it was drummed into me when I was an ROTC cadet in 1975 during my very first ROTC class.

 

From here on in, all presidents are going to be looking over their shoulders, concerned that their top generals may be conspiring against them.   Milley, in his paranoia as to President Trump and/or his desire to curry favor with the incoming Biden administration, has toppled the apolitical nature of the military and made it a political actor.  We are following the path of Rome in the decades leading up to the fall of the Republic.