Mad Mark

Tensions in the first uses of U.S. military force, under General Anthony Wayne, give strange background for General Mark Milley's decision to go around President Trump.

My last post was long, so I’ll try to keep this one shorter. Many of us have been struck by the news that during the last days of the Trump administration, General Mark A. Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under both Presidents Trump and Biden, reached out, without the president’s knowledge, to his Chinese counterpart to assure him that the …