Top Military Officers Unload on Trump

By artappraiser on Wed, 10/09/2019 - 11:03pm |

The commander in chief is impulsive, disdains expertise, and gets his intelligence briefings from Fox News. What does this mean for those on the front lines?

By Mark Bowden for The Atlantic November 2019 print issue

[....] To get a sense of what serving Trump has been like, I interviewed officers up and down the ranks, as well as several present and former civilian Pentagon employees. Among the officers I spoke with were four of the highest ranks—three or four stars—all recently retired. All but one served Trump directly; the other left the service shortly before Trump was inaugurated. They come from different branches of the military, but I’ll simply refer to them as “the generals.” Some spoke only off the record, some allowed what they said to be quoted without attribution, and some talked on the record [....]

URL:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/11/military-officers-trump/598360/