Many officers are worried that Trump's undermining of military authorities and his slap at military justice will erode discipline within the ranks.
For some officers, this was the decisive betrayal. Today’s armed forces are trained to hold their fire unless necessary, and they’re expressly barred from deliberately killing unarmed civilians, as the three pardoned servicemen were charged with doing in Iraq and Afghanistan. This is especially the case in counterinsurgency wars such as these, where “winning hearts and minds” is deemed as important as killing bad guys.
It’s worth emphasizing, though, that these officers are not on the verge of revolt. They tend to play by the book . They will continue to follow the president’s legal orders. For the most part, they refrain from speaking ill about him on the record . However, a few commanders and officials are beginning to speak out. The recently ousted secretary of the navy, Richard Spencer, who said last week that he would resign if Trump reversed the military court’s rulings and who was soon after fired at Trump’s insistence,, “I no longer share the same understanding with the Commander in Chief who appointed me, in regards to the key principle of good order and discipline.
In any case, Spencer, a former Marine aviator, was following a trend of former officers speaking out against the president. In October,, former commander of U.S.
Perhaps no other president in American history has aroused as much distaste or distrust among military officers as this one. No one is comfortable with this arousal. The officers I’ve spoken with have no desire to get involved in politics, much less in a confrontation with the president. No one can predict how this tension plays out. No one even wants to hazard a guess. Trump is stomping on untread ground. We all have cause to be nervous.Readers like you make our work possible.
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