America’s Politicized Military Is a Recipe for Disaster

[rangerrebew]

America’s Politicized Military Is a Recipe for Disaster

Message to both sides: Keep the military (and retired generals) out of politics, including the election campaign.
By Jim Golby | June 18, 2020, 4:34 PM
 

There is simply no precedent in modern U.S. history for so many prominent retired generals and admirals—including former secretary of defense and retired general James Mattis, three former chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, former service chiefs and combat commanders, and many others—to publicly criticize the judgment of a sitting president. The only incident that comes remotely close is the so-called revolt of the generals in 2006, when a handful of retired military leaders spoke out against then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s handling of the Iraq War.

This time, the dam broke on June 1, when U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to use active-duty military to exert “overwhelming force” to “dominate” U.S. cities, and when the nation’s top military officer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, walked with Trump in his combat uniform to a photo-op in front of St. John’s Episcopal Church through an area that had just been violently cleared of demonstrators. On June 11, Milley issued a remarkable apology, admitting his presence “created a perception of the military involved in domestic politics.”Milley issued a remarka

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/18/us-military-politics-trump-election-campaign/

[EdinVA]

The politicization of the military started by LBJ during Vietnam and has only gotten worse over the years. 

In fact, Ford was on the phone with the platoon commander under fire during the Battle of Koh Tang Island.....

Then we went thru BRAC and pushed politics further down the rank and file....

[Fishrrman]

"America’s Politicized Military Is a Recipe for Disaster"

It's following a carefully-prepared course.
And the results seem to be working as expected.