01/09/2024
Sure they did to the highest level. It seems the Chief feels he doesn’t have to follow the rules that are attached to his job. Congress now has to do its job to follow up on this even though Biden said nothing except that he wasn’t gong to fire Austin.
Explainer-Did Pentagon chief Austin’s secret hospitalization break the rules? (msn.com)
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Crisis of Command
America’s Broken Civil-Military Relationship Imperils National Security
By Risa Brooks, Jim Golby, and Heidi Urben
May/June 2021Published on
When U.S. President Donald Trump left office on January 20, many of those concerned about the state of civil-military relations in the United States breathed a deep sigh of relief. They shouldn’t have. Yes, Trump used the military as a political prop, referred to some of its leaders as “my generals,” and faced a Pentagon that slow-rolled his attempts to withdraw troops from battlefields around the world. But problems in the relationship between military officers and elected officials did not begin with Trump, and they did not end when Joe Biden took office.
Is civilian control over the military a threat to our national security?
Good example – the Chinese balloon flying over our country?
China refused a conversation with US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin following the downing of the suspected Chinese balloon, the Pentagon said in a statement.
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