The Pentagon’s chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, is set to retire at September’s end. Whatever credit he deserves for serving the inharmonious presidencies of Donald J. Trump and Joe Biden and backing material support for Ukraine against an international war-crime syndicate in Russia cannot overshadow how Milley effected the orders of fools.
Promoted just before (and possibly the reason for) the resignation of Jim Mattis, Trump’s defense secretary, Milley can be seen as much as a jab in the eye toward Mattis, who had recommended the Air Force’s David Goldfein for the position while suggesting Milley an excellent fit for U.S. European Command (the eastward-facing watch station). But Trump wanted the “brash” Milley because he wanted a pugnacious “yes” man, a command master sergeant-type who was deferential to his superiors and exactive toward his subordinates. During the Trump administration, his acquiescence to imprudence manifested during the George Floyd riots.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/mark-milleys-legacy-the-kabul-capitulator/
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
AC