You are correct. I should have clarified those in authority, i.e. officers and their superiors are not allowed to be dual citizens. Those with security clearances are also not allowed to obtain them with dual citizenship.
Your post is most timely, however. Imagine green card holders enlisting from Iran and the commander in chief was also Iranian. Enlisted personnel are required in their Oaths to abide by the orders of their superiors without question, including their commander in chief. Would this not cause a conflict of interest and introduce a possible threat of a military coup?
If anyone questions this as being impossible, one should review their Civil War references, or any other nation within the past 50 years where a military coup was successfully completed.
>Enlisted personnel are required in their Oaths to abide by the orders of their superiors without question, including their commander in chief.
Untrue; they are only required to follow *lawful* orders.
>Would this not cause a conflict of interest and introduce a possible threat of a military coup?
Given the situation as is, where the President’s eligibility (and therefore position as Commander In Chief) is in question AND no person in authority will address the issue... well, it could be argued that the military coup *IS* the only lawful solution — as they are oathbound first, and foremost, to the Constitution.