re: #162 ericblair

Yes, and my read is that the acting commanders and the military in general don’t know what authority the acting commanders are legally allowed to wield, because this insane idiotic situation has never happened before. So this mindless obstructionism and total leadership failure has consequences that the GOP idiots didn’t predict because the primary rule in politics is that Shit will Happen.

The problem isn’t that serious, because the services’ Chiefs of Staff are actually doing a peacetime role. The chain of command alters in case of a real deployment, with authority flowing from the Commander in Chief (President) directly to the designated combat theatre commanders.