conservative

America is a democratic Republic with a civilian head of the military. The elected president is that head.

There are some very concerning things we've learned since the end of the last administration.

We know that the military in the Middle East was lying to the commander in chief about numbers to stop a pullout ordered by the president:

https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2020/11/outgoing-syria-envoy-admits-hiding-us-troop-numbers-praises-trumps-mideast-record/170012/

We also know that Milley bragged about secretly being in touch with the Chinese military reassuring them that it the head of the military ordered them to do something they'd refuse to do it.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/15/milley-held-secret-calls-with-china-others-as-trump-pushed-election-lies.html

You might like these things because you agree with them, but America isn't supposed to be a military dictatorship, it isn't their call to disregard the civilian leadership, and it isn't their job to be doing diplomacy with countries America is hostile towards.

Accepting such actions has a dangerous precedent. The military had planned project Northwoods, an operation to attack civilian targets in the US to justify a war. It was the civilian leadership of the military who put a stop to that plan, and everyone agrees that's a good thing.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92662

Presumably, in 2023 instead of the civilian leadership stopping such a plan, the military would just go through with it.

I don't agree with the anti-gay rhetoric, but it's true that in many other ages, a high ranking military man openly telling a hostile countrys military he'd disregard any orders to act against them would be treason, and the penalty for that would be death.

If we keep letting the military go rogue, we might reach a point we wish we'd acted decisively sooner, when a leader we didn't control previously marches on Washington. Then the truly imperial phase of America shall begin.