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Trump certainly fell in and out of love fast with the last outspoken warrior-intellectual he hired, short-lived National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster.
Trump certainly fell in and out of love fast with the last outspoken warrior-intellectual he hired, short-lived National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster.
President Trump has one thing in common with , the current Army Chief of Staff, Gen. : When they speak, they get your attention.
While previous Army chiefs, all admirable men, tended to be quiet, bland, or outright inarticulate, General Milley with a gift for rhetoric and tremendous energy for reform. In the three years since, he who’d feuded bitterly with his predecessor, created and , launched of the Army , and set — ! ! ! — that then embraced with .
- Milley on bypassing Pentagon weapons-buying bureaucracy? “.”
- Milley on national security threats? “.”
- Milley on the next big war? “.”
- Milley on how to wage that war and win? “.”
- Milley on the cost of war? “.”
- Milley on the just after Trump said there was blame on both sides?
Oh, and West Point finally won the game, twice, after 14 years of losing. We’ll see how the game plays out tomorrow, when Trump is supposed to announce Milley’s nomination for JCS chairman on the sidelines.
That sort of showmanship would be distinctly uncomfortable for most prior Army chiefs or for the current, resolutely low-key chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Marine Corps . But Milley, despite a reputation as a “,” a gruff old grunt with more time in war zones than in Washington, has both dramatic flair and the intellectual firepower to back it up. He’s done more to change the Army than any single soldier in decades.
But there’s the catch. Milley actually changes things. He’s outspoken, even blunt, though I suspect there’s much more calculation behind his language than he lets on. And he gets attention. All these qualities that endear him to Trump today could set him up for dramatic conflict later — over , for example, or Milley’s relentless push to counter .
Trump certainly fell in and out of love fast with the last outspoken warrior-intellectual he hired, short-lived National Security Advisor Milley could be headed for a similar dramatic breakup. Or he could be ground down slowly like Marine , who’s counting down . Or he could spend years fighting rumors of and, punctuated by the occasional , like Defense Secretary Jim Mattis. Indeed, of the Trump picked for high positions early in his term, he seems to speak most highly of the one who never got into office, scandal-stricken .
Even after 20 years covering the , I have no idea how this will go. But I can promise you it will be worth watching.
