Of all the tasks President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to take on in his new term, reforming and restoring our military may be one of the biggest. The decline of our armed forces has arguably been going on since the end of the Cold War and Bill Clinton’s “Peace Dividend,” and has been accelerating under Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Donald Trump has the chance to set things aright – and when it comes to the Pentagon, he has the power to do it. The President of the United States has among his constitutionally-defined duties Commander-in-Chief of all the armed forces, and all officers of those armed forces serve at the pleasure of the president.
The question is, how will this president wield that power?
There has been speculation that President-elect Donald Trump could create an outside board to review the performance of senior military leaders, but he doesn’t have to in order to reshape the Pentagon in his image.
Leaders of the U.S. military serve at the pleasure of the president, and once Trump is inaugurated next month, he will have the power to relieve anyone he chooses. He is seemingly prepared to rectify the mistakes of his first administration by putting in place loyalists who are committed to carrying out his decisions without pushback.
“We all serve at the pleasure of the president,” Pentagon deputy spokeswoman Sabrina Singh told reporters in November.
The president has this power, of course. But these decisions shouldn’t be made primarily on personal loyalty; the oath every servicemember takes is to the Constitution, first and foremost. But yes, Trump can and should appoint people who are going to restore our armed services to what they are supposed to be – warfighters.
Pete Hegseth, Trump’s choice for Secretary of Defense, points out one of the problems, the Washington Examiner reported (linked above): […]
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