Will retired General Mark Milley be charged with treason by the incoming Trump Administration?As Donald J Trump reassumes the presidency of the United States, General Milley’s experiences as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff should be considered by all military officers — but particularly those at the highest levels of the Pentagon. Specifically they should think about what they’re going to do when they get a “lawful but awful” order to carry out. If the campaign rhetoric is accurate, career military officers are going to face a collision of the norms they’ve adopted as the standard over the last four-plus decades with significantly different policies handed down from the incoming Secretary of Defense, whoever that turns out to be.
