“. . . All Enemies, Foreign and Domestic”: An Open Letter to Gen. Milley

Defense One ^ | AUGUST 11, 2020 | John Nagl and Paul Yingling

[IndispensableDestiny]

Dear General Milley:

As chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, you are well aware of your duties in ordinary times: to serve as principal military advisor to the president of the United States, and to transmit the lawful orders of the president and Secretary of Defense to combatant commanders. In ordinary times, these duties are entirely consistent with your oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic…”

We do not live in ordinary times. The president of the United States is actively subverting our electoral system, threatening to remain in office in defiance of our Constitution. In a few months’ time, you may have to choose between defying a lawless president or betraying your Constitutional oath. We write to assist you in thinking clearly about that choice. If Donald Trump refuses to leave office at the expiration of his constitutional term, the United States military must remove him by force, and you must give that order.

[IndispensableDestiny]

I don't suppose we've yet reached peak Trump Derangement Syndrome. Articles like this one hint at how bad it will be. TDS deserves its own characterization in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM–5).

[PGalt]

Milley is smelly. Smells like he crawled out of the SWAMP.

#shadowgate

Against all patriots.

[Travis McGee]

Sounds like a book I wrote nearly 20 years ago, but with the plot inverted.

[laconic]

A couple of self-important nobodies who have seen too many Conan the Barbarian movies and are living the dream.

[DarthVader]

They are going to regret doing this!

[moovova]

These two traitors need to be called back to active duty, courtmartialed, stripped of their commission & pension...and sent to Gitmo to share a room.

[IndispensableDestiny]

Sounds like a book I wrote nearly 20 years ago, but with the plot inverted.

I read all three, Kindle editions.

[where's_the_Outrage?]

“the United States military must remove him by force, and you must give that order. “

The simple fact is that the Chairman JCS is a staff puke, not a commander, he legally cannot give marching orders on his own. His job is to speak for the Combatant Commanders to the President and SECDEF. He in not in the Chain of Command.

[Midwesterner53]

Defense One looks to be a hard core leftists group of Never Military folks, except for the #3 guy who managed to wear an Army likely E-4 uniform (equivalent to a Corporal) in Afghanistan as a “media advisor.” There was no such MOS when I was in the Army. Take this story as just another effort by the Marxist left to scare Americans and stir the pot.

[griswold3]

Wow! They are gonna be real mad when Trump is re-elected.

[GoldenPup]

The president of the United States is actively subverting our electoral system

Unmitigated Bullshit.

[Lockbox]

Don’t you recall the article they wrote about the illegal war Obama started in Libya? Obama joining the Syrian Civil War. Under Obama we had eight years of illegal military interventions in seven countries, none of which comprised a danger to the US and against none of which the US had declared war?

So boys, where was that article calling for the military to not follow Obama’s orders? Get back to me when you show real leadership of consistent application of YOUR OATH!

[Beagle8U]

” All Enemies, Foreign and Domestic”: An Open Letter to ...Mutt Romney!”

Fixed it.

[mabarker1]

Has it really been 20 years ? WOW it seems like it was just yesterday.

(((Ping )))

[DesertRhino]

That treasonous SOB. This isn’t Argentina. If the military literally moves against Trump they become nothing more than an enemy and will find themselves very outnumbered.

Damned coward

[HighSierra5]

Yeah. The 100,000 case trackers that Byedone wants to hire will instead be hired for the suicide hotline operators.

[circlecity]

Wait a sec McGee, you trying to take credit for Matt Bracken’s brilliant novels again?

[jeffc]

Incendiary propaganda. Just wait till October These people will be literally frothing at the mouth, whipped into delirium by their Dem/commie controllers.

These two snowflake "authors" would be quick to admit they have no problem with the President refusing to leave office at the end of his term, if it was 0bama.

[Bookshelf]

Defense One is a site for Democrat one-world elitists who haven’t yet made up their mind to completely de-fund the military.

[etcb]

Two retired Lieutenant Colonels who likely failed to qualify for promotion to Colonel. I am sure a four star General is desperate for instruction from them.