{"id":29086,"date":"2018-04-09T03:20:06","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T03:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29086"},"modified":"2018-04-09T03:20:06","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T03:20:06","slug":"too-many-generals-around-trump-maybe-but-then-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29086","title":{"rendered":"Too many generals around Trump? Maybe, but then again &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>A former Joint Chiefs chairman says he is concerned that Donald J. Trump has surrounded himself with too many generals.<\/p>\n<p>Retired Navy Admiral Mike Mullen &#8212; who served as Joint Chiefs chairman under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack H. Obama &#8212; said that Defense Secretary James Mattis and White House chief of staff John Kelly, two former U.S. Marine Corps generals, lack &#8220;political experience.&#8221; The same can be said, according to Mullen, about former national security adviser H.R. McMaster, who is an active-duty U.S. Army lieutenant general.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jim Mattis, and John Kelly and H.R. McMaster are not politicians, but they&#8217;re operating in this political world inside the White House,&#8221; Mullen said. &#8220;It is a tough, difficult, political environment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>OK, I get Mullen&#8217;s concern.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure he needs to be overly concerned. I look at the generals&#8217; presence a little differently. These men all have combat experience, which means they understand the consequences of war. It&#8217;s been said that warriors quite often are the last individuals who want to go to war. They know too well the grief and misery it brings.<\/p>\n<p>Admiral Mullen perhaps ought to be more concerned that the commander in chief is reluctant to listen the best advice he gets from those &#8220;best people&#8221; with whom he pledged to bring aboard his administrative team.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Joint Chiefs chairman says he is concerned that Donald J. Trump has surrounded himself with too many generals. Retired Navy Admiral Mike Mullen &#8212; who served as Joint Chiefs chairman under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack H. Obama &#8212; said that Defense Secretary James Mattis and White House chief of staff John &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29086\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Too many generals around Trump? Maybe, but then again &#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1424,6944,6705,6868,2565,7693,5246],"class_list":["post-29086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-hr-mcmaster","tag-james-mattis","tag-john-kelly","tag-joint-chiefs-of-staff","tag-mike-mullen","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29088,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29086\/revisions\/29088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}