Trump Ally Holds Up Promotion of Army General Involved in Afghanistan Evacuation - WSJ

“What things like that do is create uncertainty,” said a defense official of Trump’s comments. “The bigger worry is the march toward the politicization of the military. Generals are human as well. The more this happens, the more likely they are to react to it. At some point, they are going to conclude that they have to pick sides to keep advancing.”

They’ve been picking political sides for decades.

A general officer’s sole focus should be lethality. Everything else is a wasteful distraction and disrespectful of the millions of men and women who set their personal needs aside in service of the nation and raised their right hands to protect us all.

Take care your people, train them, equip them, and keep the tip of the spear as sharp as geometrically possible. That’s the job.