“If all military authority for orders originate with the commander-in-chief, and the person claiming to be commander-in-chief is not legitimate, then all subordinate orders are invalid.”
So the military is effectively disbanded?
Everybody go home?
>>“If all military authority for orders originate with the commander-in-chief, and the person claiming to be commander-in-chief is not legitimate, then all subordinate orders are invalid.”
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>So the military is effectively disbanded?
In a very real & legal way, yes.
What you’re seeing now is a desperate appeal to positional power/authority:
“We’re your superior officers, so you have to obey our orders!” {Errr... I seem to remember Nuremberg...}*
It’s even in the civilian-side, demonstrated quite well when Nancy Pelosi was asked what *Constitutional* authority the Congress had to mandate healthcare and she laughed asking “are you serious?”.
The question is whether or not the people will be sated with an appeal to illegitimate authority or not.
If they are accepted, then out Republic dies then and there; if they are not accepted, well, then things get interesting.
*The 6th Amendment says this:
In *all* criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to [..] have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses
in his favor [..]
By not allowing witnesses in this trial it is clear that this CANNOT [legitimately] be a criminal trial; furthermore, it reveals that those conducting the trial are NOT concerned with upholding the Constitution. {Violations of the UCMJ (Military Law), which covers insubordination, missing movement, and all the other charges against the LTC are considered crimes under the UCMJ.}
>Everybody go home?
Many people would have a visceral “NO!” reaction, but yes.
It may surprise you, but we did NOT have a regular/professional army until AFTER WWII. Having, and paying for, a professional/regular army encourages its use by those who control it, the added ‘inertia’ of raising an army to overcome by military powers is actually a good way to keep the army from being used abroad unnecessarily (i.e. World Police).