[Non-Sequitur]

I think you're absolutely right. He certainly will be tried, and probably convicted, of missing movement and conduct unbecomming. If he's charged with failure to obey an order of his surperior then that superior will be this Colonel Roberts or an officer further up the chain. Obama will never enter into it.

And if he sues then he can't establish standing because he can't establish a causal relationship between his injury and Obama's actions. He'll go down in flames and it won't change a thing.

[BP2]

And if he sues then he can't establish standing because he can't establish a causal relationship between his injury and Obama's actions.

Otto Non-Sequitur ...
Let me correct you on a couple of things, OK?

Aristotle was not Belgian.

The central message of Buddhism is not every man for himself.

The London Underground is not a political movement. Those are all mistakes.

Furthermore, if you're looking for a "causal relationship" for Injury, as caused to Lt Col Lakin by his deployment orders as directed by the (de facto) President, start by READING the "National Security Act of 1947".

Look for phrases like "Under the direction of the President" and "Subject to the authority, direction, and control of the President" — and it will tell you who's in charge.

The National Command Authority (NCA) — the ultimate lawful source of ALL military orders — passes down its directives from the SECDEF and President, both of which currently get their CONSTITUTIONAL POWER from Barrack Hussein Obama (as SCARY a proposition that is). The President at the TOP is ALWAYS responsible, as he ALSO has the AUTHORITY to, at his discretion and whim, RELIEVE FROM COMMAND all of those BELOW him, including the SECDEF himself! Again, sh!t rolls downhill.

Command Authority in our military, from the time our Constitution was written to now, is derived FROM an -ELECTED- Commander in Chief (CinC). Thank goodness, too, or General George Washington could have resumed his Commission — from whence he resigned in Annapolis on Dec. 23, 1783 — when the Electoral College elected Washington unanimously in 1789 after our Constitution was fully ratified.

ANYTIME a deployment order (or any order for that matter) is given -SOLELY- on the INDEPENDENT Command Authority of a lower Commander — even the appointed SECDEF himself — consider that a violation of EVERY DoD and Military Service Manual and Directive written on the subject ... and really even the Constitution itself! That's called a Military coups, a common occurrence in any banana republic, but not here.

Unless you somehow think — in your ever-so flawed logic — that Army Chief of Staff Gen. Casey is an independent Sovereign Military Commander, much like Napoleon ... the SECDEF, Gen. Casey and -ALL- of those BELOW them derive their Command Authority for
***ALL National Security actions*** from the President.

As everyone knows, there's room for only ONE Napoleon as long as Obama is president.

[an amused spectator]

He'll go down in flames and it won't change a thing.

Always knew that you were a mouth-breathing idiot, N-S, but this statement takes the cake.