UH OH: Mackubin Owens: How Military Leaders’ Trump Criticism Can Damage Civil-Military Relations. “In the case of General Milley, he should have made his objections known to the president in private. But public attacks on an elected president by retired officers and the threat of resignation by high-ranking officers undermine trust and poison civil-military relations. Toxic civil-military relations are something no citizen should desire.”
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