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From: zax	9/9/2016 12:55:37 AM
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Trump's shot at top brass rankles military circles Any attempt to sideline top officers in one fell swoop is viewed by some retired officers and longtime Pentagon officials as undermining tradition. By Bryan Bender 09/08/16 04:11 PM EDT politico.com Donald Trump's broadside against the top military brass is drawing warnings of a crisis in civilian-military relations should he become commander in chief and begin bypassing generals and admirals now serving under President Barack Obama. "It would be unprecedented," said Mackubin Thomas Owens, a retired Marine colonel and former instructor at the Naval War College. "This would be making the military into a partisan prize. The idea you are going to come in and fire all the generals and admirals would be nearly impossible for a variety of reasons, but would also be stupid." Wednesday night, the Republican presidential nominee charged the top rungs of the officer corps have been "reduced to rubble," referring to claims that a number of senior commanders have been cowed by administration officials or removed for disagreeing with them. It's a state of affairs Trump called "embarrassing to our country." He also said that, in drawing up a new strategy to defeat the Islamic State, he would rely on "different generals" — a position Trump's surrogates underscored on Thursday. "Mr. Trump never said he’d fire generals," the campaign emailed POLITICO. "He said he’d have different generals advising him." Nonetheless, any attempt to sideline top officers in one fell swoop — while the prerogative of the president — is viewed by some retired officers and longtime Pentagon officials as undermining a tradition of keeping the active-duty military out of politics as much as possible. Unfairly painting a number of generals and admirals as lackeys of Obama would erode the perception that as an institution they are independent, they said. Those are fears that top uniformed officers themselves have expressed privately for months as they have sought — not always successfully — to deflect questions from reporters about controversial proposals put forward by Trump, including his calls to torture terrorism suspects and his questioning of the relevance of the NATO military alliance. Read more: politico.com

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