“Trump approaches these issues differently. He’s fundamentally a manager. That makes some people uneasy, but it’s really his greatest asset.”
Therein lies the problem, though. It’s one thing to manage a company, it’s something quite another to serve as commander-in-chief of a military you at some point are likely to send to fight. Trump’s campaign manager quit partly because Trump wouldn’t take the time to read daily briefs and otherwise build knowledge of issues beyond a 30,000-foot-level view.
Trump has shown that he knows how to manage, and how to do so successfully. He has more experience managing then all of the other candidates, and he has been successful at it. To believe that a President Trump would not listen to his advisors, whether they be military or any other subject matter is unrealistic IMO. Trump’s focus right now is on getting elected. He has mentioned before in interviews, that he doesn’t believe that people are all that interested in hearing a lot of detail at this point in the process but are more interested in the general direction of where he wants to go. Check out his interview with the Wall Street Journal reporter a couple of weeks ago where he talks about this.