This poll of U.S. military personnel suggests 1 in 4 troops is worried about life under Donald...

Statistics. Numbers are easy to play with. Kinda like the glass half empty or half full. Thanks for pointing it out I thought the same thing.

As I recall it wasn't so much disagreeing with the president in private, it was disagreeing with him very publicly in news sources. Any high ranking general should know that's going to get them fired, regardless of who the POTUS is. Sometimes people at that level in the organization start to forget they are still an employee.

I agree, going public with most of the stuff was not a smart move, but, some of the disagreements were fleshed out in private discussions to no avail. More than quite a few were made on the ground, in the heat of the moment with very little time to have a sit down. I know that theater doctrine was hashed out by the heads inside the beltway, and public (insert foreign) perspective won, over ground commanders needs and experience. Their frustration in having to lead with one hand and both feet tied, bled out to the public, which should not have. Kind of a flash back to the Vietnam war. I was very young, and am only talking about my perspective, but, if the Generals would have marched in to Johnsons office and demanded that they either be allowed to fight, and win, or start an immediate withdraw, a lot of our service members would not have perished. However, they were not allowed to do either. I have the utmost respect for our Vietnam veterans. However, again, I agree that the Military leadership has to keep their opinion out of the public view. But, to the original concern voiced in the article, I fall back to the thinking that those officers that have been relieved, were replaced with either left leaning officers, or hopefully, officers that know when not to fight the loosing (bureaucratic) battle, and definitely not in public.