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Presidential SEAL: Donald Trump puts his stamp on military discipline

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The Corrosive Effects of Politicized Military Discipline

This chapter explores the impact of politicizing military discipline on civil-military relations. It emphasizes the potential long-term dangers and corrosive effects this dynamic could have on military effectiveness and civilian oversight.

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What
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is the longer term effect on the armed forces? Do we have a sense of whether this is going to leave a lingering legacy?
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I think there are a number of dangers. Quite obviously, politicizing military discipline is corrosive of the relationship between civilian leadership, military leadership. It's also an extremely bad example to the troops, if you like. It's corrosive of military discipline itself. And I think the broader politicization of civil military relations, which President Trump has been responsible for, not the first president to politicize civil military relations, but he's in recent times, the most kind of reckless is something that that is of grave concern at a time when civil military relations in America are not close and where the armed forces have, until relatively recently, been one of the very few exceptions to the sort of politicization of everything in America. James, thank you very much for your time. Thank you. AI is rewriting the business
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Infrastructure.

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