As Donald Trump returns to office once again to be commander-in-chief, some of the generals and admirals he commands may wonder if his first order to them will be: “You’re fired.”
Even as a potential war brewing with China over Taiwan and the South China Sea looms large in the plans of Congress and the general staff, Trump and his team have said that they intend for the most senior military leaders to be loyal to the president’s agenda – and to the president himself – in ways that close observers of military leadership and organization find troubling.
