Republicans and the few remaining sane Democrats realize the White House micromanaging a war effort is dumb as dirt. This came to light during Vietnam when Johnson was choosing bombing targets.
Neither Bush nor Rumsfeld is doing that today. The military is given the objective and then allowed to do what they have to do to accomplish it. This is the reason our leaders are respected by the troops today.
The last time the White House was interfering with the military was in Somalia, Haiti and Kosovo. Those were not our finest days to represent what we are capable of but shows how Democrats wage war.
The Dems of our time run the military like the Glorious Soviet Socialist Republic once did. With *political" officers at every command level,