Examples of partisanship seeping into the armed forces are prompting generals and admirals to confront what they see as a growing threat to the military's apolitical tradition
The Pentagon’s leadership has been “very sensitive" to the challenges it faces "at this moment in history,” said retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Charles Dunlap, the executive director of the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security at Duke University School of Law. But he worries that impeachment takes the dangers to a new level, with the potential of embroiling the military in an unusual level of partisanship and possibly sowing confusion in the ranks about who is in charge.
Berger, the Marine commandant, described how the challenge has grown since he came up the ranks: “The instruction I got was, 'These are the bumper stickers you can and can't put on your truck or the sign you can and can't put it on your front yard.' Well, now controlling social media is a whole other animal, right?”
It also singles out social media. "Because an active duty member may not engage in partisan political activity,” it outlines, “the active duty member may not post or make direct links to a political party, partisan political candidate, campaign, group, or cause; such activity is akin to distributing literature on behalf of those entities."
“every sailor to think about who we are as a Navy and the constitutional oath we commit ourselves to. That oath is what binds us together. It is the foundation of our profession.”
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