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That was my feeling exactly, but forgot to put that in the original post I made. I feel very strongly about this, as you do. What he did is contrary to every tenet of the culture and code that exists (or used to exist) in our military.

In my opinion, when Milley convened that meeting with the JCS, every one of them should have stood up straight at his subject matter, and said the course of action he was pursuing was wrong and contrary to the UCMJ, and any one of them should have jumped the chain of command and gone directly to the Secretary of Defense.

If no action was taken, they should have gone directly to the President.

You are absolutely correct. (as is Freeper DariusBane at post #21 where he states: "...I think you HAVE to make an example of Milley in order to restore discipline in the chain of command. Why should a 1st sgt follow a captains guidance or a company commander a battalion commanders guidance?..." Why indeed?

The Pentagon upper echelons are filled with political people. That is why I posted this to someone who maintained Hegseth was not qualified (before he was confirmed):

This is why, even under fire from some of our fellow Freepers, I have advocated without restraint for a Secretary of Defense such as Pete Hegseth. (Note: I respect many of those who disagreed with me on this, and that includes many with far more experience and responsibility than I ever had...I simply disagreed with them. This is not meant to throw shade on them.)

He (Hegseth) pretty obviously will have a red phone straight to the top. He is going to face huge resistance from the embedded Deep State military leadership.

Many say he doesn’t have the flag officer experience and he doesn’t know the structure and workings of the military beyond his combat experience. I say what has Lloyd Austin showed us, beyond the ability to be AWOL in the military and how to get away with it?

Many say he doesn’t have the corporate experience to manage what is essentially the largest corporation in the world, the Defense Department. I say, we had Robert Strange McNamara, and how did that work out for us.

What is going to happen in the Defense Department in the next four years is not going to be military management of resources that a full four star General might better navigate.

And it is not going to be a display of fine corporate management with meetings, Powerpoint presentations, and metrics to show success or failure.

What I hope is going to happen in the next four years in the Defense Department is going to be an internecine, political version of what happened in Fallujah in 2004 where our Marines went house to house, door to door, and room to room to root out insurgents in the most brutal urban combat since the Hue Campaign in 1968.

Pete Hegseth and his teams of Pentagon Door-kickers will meet resistance every bit as burrowed in as those insurgents in Fallujah, and just as unwilling to give up their anti-American, Deep State Marxist gains. They will need to be fought hand to hand.

In that light, I would rather have someone who is undeniably accomplished, aggressive, and proficient at kicking down doors and killing everyone inside (if merited) and who fully understands the one single issue above all others that needs to be eradicated in today’s military: the elimination of all things DEI, which is wholly incompatible with the concept of proficiency. Like a metastasizing cancer, it has invaded and destroyed any semblance of competency in our military whenever it comes into contact with the principles of DEI.

I have read Pete Hegseth’s book, and he understands the nature and criticality of this DEI threat to our military.

I am heartened by the thought that there are thousands, if not tens of thousands of people in this system who will be willing to help Trump and Hegseth in this endeavor, after having watched the degradation of this formerly fine, competency-based system, and will no doubt line up with both of them to overthrow it.