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So General Stupid marches his band of mass murderers through Oceanside and Huntington Beach and kills a few dozen families of Marines. What does General Stupid do when the 1st Marine Division pours out of Camp Pendleton and attacks him, while the 3rd MAW is bombing his flanks? What does General Stupid do when he calls his CP and finds it in flames and his staff hanging from trees?

Yep, sending the military out to massacre civilians will do wonders for inter-service cooperation and unity.

There are no enemy frontlines. There are no enemy camps.

So maybe in your world you’d follow Gen. Stupid. Not in mine.

We do live in different worlds. I am trying the best that I can to understand your example, but I cannot relate to it. I was stationed at Camp Pendleton a long time ago. I still have nightmares about Mother. What I imagine would happen is that he Marines would be the ones that would be enforcing martial law. If the Commandant of the Marine Corps sent an order to Maj Gen Whoever to enforce martial law in California, that is what he would do. I would expect the Navy, Coast Guard, Air Force, and Army to do the same. The only force that might not follow the orders of the JCS would be the National Guard. Unless the Supreme Court issued a clear ruling that the actions of the President are unconstitutional, the military must follow a legally issued order. If you believe that the brass is going to go against a direct order from JCS, you know more than I do.