Tom Nichols: The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here

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2. They can simply be fired

more easily than any other federal worker? What you are talking about is likely a coup- which is what it will be called. This is also what a minority rule GOP was always tending toward, but I bet they don't like a general taking over unless he is like those politicized thugs we have raised up in the past in smaller countries. They do this because the civilians have failed and can't be trusted? Judges are fighting back individually until you get to the corrupt SCOTUS. Some politicians are. Some GOP would like not to be just rubber stamps.
The officer corps standing together would be refreshing if it is by the hundreds. Or?