@MaxBoot - thank you for the interesting read but I take issue with a few points.

The professional officer corps cares less about any one president or legislature. The officer corps wants policy makers to let military leaders train troops to fight and take troops to fight. https://twitter.com/foreignaffairs/status/1249549390303420416

Further, war is fought and won at the lowest level. Officers at the lowest lever - and their troops - are not taking cues from the Commander-in-Chief. Discipline and good order is built and enforced by NCOs on the ground, not the by the President in Washington.

The military is not a place for politicization or socialization. Take time to understand the lowest level troops, why they fight, and how discipline is built from the ground up. Write, as it is essential to the republic, but keep the Officer corps and troops writ large out of it.