Thread by @gtconway3d

“In 20 years of writing about the military, I have never heard officers in high positions express such alarm about a president. Trump’s pronouncements and orders have already risked catastrophic and unnecessary wars in the Middle East and Asia, ....”

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“... and have created severe problems for field commanders engaged in combat operations.”

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“[Trump’s] rudderless captaincy creates the headlines Trump craves. He revels when his tweets take off. ... Out in the field, where combat is more than wordplay, his tweets have consequences.”

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“He is not a president who thinks through consequences—and this, the generals stressed, is not the way serious nations behave.”

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“In the long run,... unpredictability is a problem. Without a coherent underlying strategy, uncertainty creates confusion and increases the chance of miscalculation—and miscalculation, the generals pointed out, is what starts most wars.”

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