GOs attending too many academia symposiums and D.C. Cocktail parties. That’s where most of this crap gets its steam. That, and we have an army of secular humanist executive level civil servants infecting the DoD, calling the shots and feeding these guys their pablum.
We can think of rationalizations and reasons all day long, but at the end of it all, they failed to do their duty. They were Ottoman Pashas, reclining on divans and being fed grapes by slave girls and eunuchs, but didn’t they look magnificent in their uniforms?
“Oath? What oath? Constitution? Oh, that old rag....”