The US Military Is Not Ready for a Constitutional Crisis

Mon, 17 Feb 2020 04:07:38 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2020/02/us-military-not-ready-constitutional-crisis/163032/>

"For most of my time in uniform, my lack of understanding about the
Constitution was entirely academic. No one I served with imagined that
we would ever find ourselves choosing between following orders and
upholding our oath. Some were dimly aware that our compatriots long ago
had wrestled with these issues. As an instructor at the Citadel, I
taught my students about the My Lai massacre, and about the obligation
to disobey an unlawful order. But it was theoretical. To my students,
Vietnam was a faint echo."

Via Jim Douglas.

Cheers,
        *** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net                   Andrew Pam
http://www.xanadu.com.au/                 Chief Scientist, Xanadu
http://www.glasswings.com.au/             Partner, Glass Wings
http://www.sericyb.com.au/                Manager, Serious Cybernetics

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