Trump’s decision to fire the JAG generals gives the game away. I served as a JAG officer in the United States Army Reserve and deployed to Iraq during the surge in 2007. I also served in South Korea during Operation Key Resolve in 2010, a military exercise in which American and South Korean forces responded to a simulated North Korean attack.

Fast-forward to December 2018 when President Donald Trump nominated Gen. Mark Milley for chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCOS), against the wishes of