XPost: soc.history.what-if, alt.history.what-if, us.military.army   
   XPost: soc.culture.usa   
   From: dtravel@sonic.net   
      
   On 11/24/2019 4:00 PM, Phil McGregor wrote:   
   > 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   
   > ...   
   >   
   I'm certain they understand that.  A position on the Joint Chiefs is at   
   least as much a political post as a military one.   
      
      
      
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