Re: “The majority of our senior military leadership would sell out this country (and many already have) for their own personal gain.”
If they were interested in personal gain, why would they choose a military career?
As I recall, you can’t reach a $100,000 pay check until you get promoted to general, which takes at least 30 years, and excludes about 99% of all officers.
If you have good leadership skills and good math skills, and you are interested money, most people would quit the military before age 30, and start their own business.
“As I recall, you can’t reach a $100,000 pay check until you get promoted to general,”
Officers do quite a bit better than that a lot sooner. I don’t begrudge anyone their pay. It’s the corruption that bothers me. It’s the political self-dealing that bugs me.
It is, quite literally the Military Industrial Complex that Eisenhower warned us about.