American army leaders have sent a letter to soldiers clarifying that their oath to the constitution “includes the right of the people peaceably to assemble”
JAMES MATTIS, a revered former general, had largely kept his views to himself since resigning as President Donald Trump’s first secretary of defence in December 2018. On June 3rd he ended his silence with a blistering attack on his former boss. General Mattis recalled the oath he had taken to defend the constitution. “Never did I dream that troops taking that same oath would be ordered under any circumstance to violate the Constitutional rights of their fellow citizens,” he said.
Such anxious dissent from within, and open fury from the ranks of former leaders—General Mattis was just one of several retired generals and admirals to express his alarm—is extraordinary. “We are at an inflection point, and the events of the past few weeks have made it impossible to remain silent,” said Admiral Mike Mullen, one of General Milley’s predecessors as chairman of the joint chiefs. The problem was a larger one that cut to the heart of America’s civil-military relations, he said.
That the protests have been about mostly white police forces killing mostly black men is a particularly sensitive issue for the armed forces. Black Americans are no longer vastly over-represented in the services as they were in the years after the Vietnam war. They make up around 13% of America’s population and 16% of its active-duty force.
Mr Esper’s exhortation to governors on June 1st to “dominate the battlespace” and General Milley’s decision to roam the streets of Washington later that night in combat uniform went down badly among many Americans, Republican and Democrat, who thought both men had allowed themselves to be co-opted by Mr Trump as political props.
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