'Historians will surely find that when Trump walked from the White House to St. John's Church, his path violently cleared of peaceful protesters, he lost the support of key elements of the military that he so reveres,' Peter Bergen writes for CNNOpinion.
Peter Bergen is CNN's national security analyst, a vice president at New America, and a professor of practice at Arizona State University. His new book is"Trump and His Generals: The Cost of Chaos." The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion at CNN.
You join the most elite club in the US military when you pin on your fourth star; there were, as of 2019, only 39 four-star general officers across the various services of the US armed forces, according to the US Congressional Research Service. Once those four-star generals and admirals retire, with a very few exceptions they avoid taking any kind of public stance on political issues, seeking even in retirement to uphold the apolitical nature of the US military, a key to its widespread popularity among Americans.
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