“Stand by to get some.” So begins Jocko Willink’s account in The Dichotomy of Leadership, co-authored with Leif Babin, of one in a series of clashes during the battle of Ramadi in the Iraq War. Willink and Babin are former Navy SEALs and veterans of the Iraq War. What were they about “to get”? Combat.
Nelson writes, "Unlike many countries that play musical chairs with military coups and interchangeable juntas, America's Constitution made it clear that civilians were to have dominance over the military at all times. This is no longer the case. According to Bob Woodward's book “Peril,” Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Mark Milley secretly contacted his Chinese counterpart to assure him that President Trump wouldn't be permitted to attack China. Milley then persuaded other top commanders not to follow presidential orders without his (Milley's) approval. Milley hasn't denied the story. His action and the other officers' craven acquiescence is a crossing of the Rubicon in American history."
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