I listened to an NPR interview with Retired Marine Corps Lt. General Walter Gaskin, and this part shook me: Kelly: What guidance would you give a Marine who came to you with questions about this mission? Gaskin: (...) Ours is not to reason why, but to do or die. www.npr.org/2025/06/10/n...
That one sentence summarized for me the fallacy of a hierarchical structure that is supposed to answer to the US Constitution first and not the President, but - apparently - that's really subject to the whims of whoever is in charge at the military - which can be changed by a sycophant DoD Sec.