The Most Dangerous Man in America – The American Conservative
In other words: Either deliberately or through a fundamental inability to carry out their basic responsibilities, the chairman and other military leaders had failed to meet the president s ordered drawdown target by a full thousand troops. (It seems no senator noticed this discrepancy, as none pressed the general further on the matter.) Further, Milley, McKenzie, and Austin all testified repeatedly that they had continued to advise in favor of that residual force of 2,500 the reduction to which they had spectacularly failed to execute the first time it was ordered by their commander-in-chief up to the bitter end, and apparently in perpetuity.