Airforce Mag: Milley’s Office Defends Calls to China as ‘in Keeping With Duties’ as CJCS

All of the Gen. Milley controversy stems from a passage in a book that hadn't been released yet and no one seems to even mention wanting to read it first before jumping to hysterics?

https://www.airforcemag.com/milley-defends-calls-to-china-in-keeping-with-duties/

“The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs regularly communicates with Chiefs of Defense across the world, including with China and Russia. These conversations remain vital to improving mutual understanding of U.S. national security interests, reducing tensions, providing clarity, and avoiding unintended consequences or conflict,” Butler’s statement read.

“His calls with the Chinese and others in October and January were in keeping with these duties and responsibilities conveying reassurance in order to maintain strategic stability. All calls from the Chairman to his counterparts, including those reported, are staffed, coordinated, and communicated with the Department of Defense and the interagency.”
In “Peril,” Woodward and Costa also detail an incident in which Milley gathered senior officers to review the procedures for launching nuclear weapons, “saying the President alone could give the order—but, crucially, that he, Milley, also had to be involved,” according to the Post report.
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“In keeping with his responsibilities as senior military advisor to the President and Secretary of Defense, General Milley frequently conducts meetings with uniformed leaders across the Services to ensure all leaders are aware of current issues,” the statement said. “The meeting regarding nuclear weapons protocols was to remind uniformed leaders in the Pentagon of the long-established and robust procedures in light of media reporting on the subject.”

Speaking during a press briefing Sept. 15, Pentagon Press Secretary John F. Kirby refused to comment on the “validity” of the report but did say, “I see nothing in what I’ve read that would cause any concern.”

“What I can tell you is it is not uncommon at all for the department to continue to review security protocols, particularly when it comes to our strategic deterrence capabilities, that we constantly take a look at the protocols and procedures to make sure they’re still relevant,” Kirby said. “It is completely appropriate for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as the senior military advisor to the Secretary and the President, to want to see those protocols reviewed on whatever frequent basis that he wants to do that.”

Kirby appeared to react with surprise when asked if Milley should be tried for treason because of his calls to China as Trump suggested, saying, “Typically, when the Chairman or the Secretary interact with their counterparts, it’s a function of the job. They have to do that.”

Before you toss around such bold terms as 'Treason' against a man who has spent his life defending the constitution and America from it's enemies, noting that rising to the position of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs is no small accomplishment, out of respect for a man in his position, the least you can do is read more about the issue than jump to such a drastic conclusion on hearsay.

I think the book just came out, so perhaps you should read it, specifically, page #129 ( as Woodward has suggested ) and/or at least Listen to Woodward, the author of "Peril' the source of all the right's hysterics created by the misunderstood passage quoted in the book:

 

His office defends it, but a large majority of the military realizes that it is a really bad precedent. That is tantamount to a military takeover of the government which is a violation of the Constitution. The fact that it is in an Air Force magazine does not mean they endorse the idea.