What is your opinion about this author's premise that President Obama is abusing the military?

I don't think so much present Obama is abusing the military. He has no respect for the military.

Unless this author works in USSOCOM, USCENTCOM, CJTF-OIR, or USSOCCENT, or has access to classified briefings from one of those headquarters, his opinion--and this truly is an opinion piece--is uninformed, or at best ill-informed. Having been in one of those headquarters in the past six months, I can tell you that neither the Commander-in-Chief, nor any of his civilian advisors dreamed up this plan on their own. It almost certainly was conceived and proposed by military strategic leaders or was a compromise of a proposed plan that the military found feasible, acceptable, and suitable. I would venture to say that every decision that President Obama has directed regarding the military was either proposed by, or supported by our strategic military leaders, whose jobs are to provide military options to the National Command Authority. That no senior military leader has resigned in protest, tells me that the President's decisions are neither corrupt nor immoral. Either that, or our senior military leaders have pulled a page from McMaster's Book.