"Trump, a former military academy cadet- albeit not an enthusiastic one- had touted a return to military values and expertise. In fact, he most of all had sought to preserve his personal right to defy or ignore his own organization. This, too, made sense, since not really having an organization was the most efficient way to sidestep the people in your organization and to dominate them. It was just one irony of his courtship of admired military figures like James Mattis, H.R. McMaster, and John Kelly: they found themselves working in an administration that was in every way inimical to basic command principles."
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Military leaders from the United StatesUnited States MarinesWhite House Chiefs of StaffUnited States Secretaries of Homeland SecurityCommanders of the United States Southern Command
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, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House (2018), p. 109
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