From left: Gen. John F. Kelly; Gen. James N. Mattis; Gen. Joseph F. Dunford; Gen. James F. Amos; CMC photographer. Sgt. Mallory S. VanderSchans; Gen. John R. Allen; Gen. John M. Paxton Jr., gather at the Home of the Commandants in Washington, D.C., April 19, 2013. | U.S. Marine Corps HQMC Combat Camera/Released
James Kitfield, Politico: Trump’s Generals Are Trying to Save the World. Starting With the White House.
The president has handed huge power to a group of military officers, and they’re out to solve two big problems: Obama's policies, and their boss.
By the end of last week, even President Donald Trump had apparently had enough of the self-inflicted chaos swirling around his White House. And the person he turned to fix it—instinctively, it seems—was a retired Marine Corps general.
John Kelly, out of uniform for just a year after retiring as head of U.S. Southern Command, has been running the Department of Homeland Security since January. He’s a straight-talking and sometimes blunt man whose accent suggests his working-class Boston roots, and he enjoys a salty joke. Sources say Trump was already in the habit of asking him for advice on how to make the White House run more smoothly.
Not since the early days of the Ford administration has a general served as White House chief of staff—and arguably not since the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, himself a retired general, have senior military officers wielded such influence at the top levels of an administration. Kelly forms a nexus of power with three other generals: Secretary of Defense James Mattis, a retired Marine general; Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a Marine general; and national security adviser H.R. McMaster, still a uniformed lieutenant general in the Army — and a replacement for retired Lt. General Michael Flynn, who was fired after less than a month in the job.
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WNU Editor: President Trump was not elected because his supporters wanted an American empire .... he was elected because of his promise to focus on America .... not the world. These Generals appear to have a different agenda .... and while I do not know how long this relationship between President Trump and his Generals will last, it will probably come down to how they handle the wars in the Middle East and Afghanistan.
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