American Thinker - Are civilians still in control of the military?

LINK - American Thinker - Are civilians still in control of the military?

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Our Founders knew that a renegade military was as great a threat to liberty as an installed tyrant. They wrote the first two articles of the United States Constitution to give control over the military to the president as commander in chief and to Congress via the power to declare war.

These powers have been asserted over the military throughout America's history: President Lincoln dismissed General McClellan for disobeying orders after the Battle of Antietam; President Truman relieved General MacArthur of command after MacArthur publicly criticized Truman's Korean War policies; and President Obama accepted General McChrystal's resignation shortly after McChrystal mocked then–vice president Joe Biden in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine. The ability of military commanders to speak and act of their own will and the power of their civilian authorities to hold them accountable for their words and deeds is an important — if unwritten — check and balance.

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In 2020, it was revealed that the military brass lied to President Trump about troop numbers in Syria after Trump ordered a withdrawal from the country in 2019.

Just over a week ago, a phone conversation between Joe Biden and the deposed former president of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani, was leaked to Reuters by either the State Department or the Pentagon, according to Tucker Carlson. This transcript shows Biden pressing Ghani to lie about Taliban successes in the country to create the illusion of coalition success. As damning as this revelation is for Biden and how the U.S. government operates under what is ostensibly his administration, there are longer-term implications that should be concerning to the average American conservative if that leak did indeed come from the military.

To the public's knowledge, no military official suffered consequences for lying to the commander in chief about troop numbers in Syria. The Biden administration also appears uninterested in punishing any official for last week's leak.

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He doesn't bring this up, but I will.

Maybe the answer is no. Maybe it is because we are at war with China and the civilians who would normally be in control of the military in the current administration are traitors and will be in Gitmo before it's all over.