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Dangerman9/20/2021 7:34:09 am PDT

Except that’s not at all what happened.

What chairman Milley was trying to do, as we show in the book, was contain a national security emergency.”

He added: “While these calls with general Li were held on a top-secret back channel, they were not secret. This is not someone working in isolation. He was reading people in in the national security community.”

Esper is a civilian. He (apparently) told Milley to reach out to the Chinese. If Esper told Milley not to do that and Milley did it anyway, that would be a breach of civilian control of the military. that’s not what happened.

confusing the idea of “civilian control of the military” with “Presidential control of the military” - i.e., that orders to the military must originate from the President and not his Defense Secretary.

that’s never how it worked before and not how it works today.