XPost: soc.history.what-if, alt.history.what-if, us.military.army   
   XPost: soc.culture.usa   
   From: aspqrz@tpg.com.au   
      
   On Sun, 24 Nov 2019 17:47:58 -0600, "Byker"  wrote:   
      
   >"Dimensional Traveler"  wrote in message news:qrekdo$u0s$1@dont-email.me...   
   >   
   >On 11/24/2019 10:33 AM, Byker wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> Try that today and the Joint Chiefs of Staff would probably confront the   
   >>> President and say in effect, "Mr. (Mrs.?) President, we will no longer   
   >>> follow your orders." Game over...   
   >>   
   >> I think en masse resignations would be what happened rather than refusing   
   >> orders and trying to stay in their positions.   
   >   
   >The Chief Exec might take them seriously if he/she looked out an Oval Office   
   >window and stared down the barrels of a half-dozen tanks...   
      
   Maybe.   
      
   It would also signal the end (or the beginning of the end) of anything   
   resembling democracy in the Republic and its recreation as a Banana   
   Republic or Military Dictatorship.   
      
   I suspect that American military leaders might have understood this   
   ...   
      
   Phil McGregor   
      
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