"Retired U.S. Marine Colonel Mark Cancian, in an interview with NPR, called the possibility of an order authorizing the use of lethal force in U.S. cities a 'huge problem,' explaining that the military is not trained on when the use of such force is appropriate against civilians."
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"Retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey called the gathering 'one of the strangest, most incoherent national security events' he has ever encountered, describing it as 'a bitter partisan sort-of "savage tone" address.' He described the idea that the military would train to operate within U.S. cities 'deeply unsettling.'”
Commenting on the Trump-Hegseth performance yesterday, Kristin Du Mez points to a passage in her book Jesus and John Wayne in which she discussewd retired colonel David Antoon's commentary on the infusion of warrior rhetoric in the military in the 2000s.
She wrote,
"Antoon identified a source of this inflitration."
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"He’d seen cadets and families at the Cadet Chapel welcomed by 'a phalanx of enthusiastic pastors' and recruited to Monday night Bible studies taught by members of New Life Church and Focus on the Family staff bused in for that purpose. The academy, Antoon realized, had become 'a giant Trojan horse for evangelicals to get inside the military.'”
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"What the Trump Administration faced this morning was two words: COLD REJECTION. Rejection of the Trump Administration to lead the Commanders of the United States Military into the future of 21st Century warfare."
~ Terrence Goggin
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https://thewestpointhistoryprofessor.substack.com/p/the-us-militarys-silent-fury-a-trump
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