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US President-elect Donald Trump is discussing how to respond if US President-elect Donald Trump orders the deployment of military forces and the dismissal of a large number of non-political employees. In addition, he said that corrupt people will be removed from the American National Security Agency.
In the previous term, Trump's relationship with some of his senior military leaders, including General Mark Milley, became tense. While chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Milley took steps to limit Trump's ability to use nuclear weapons. In response, Trump has repeatedly said that US military generals are "weak and ineffective".
With Trump being elected president, Pentagon officials are facing various scenarios. "We are all preparing and planning for the worst case scenario." But the reality is that we don't know what's going on now,' a defense official told CNN .
With Trump's victory, questions have also arisen within the Pentagon. CNN reports that defense officials are confused about what to do if the president issues an illegal order. "Soldiers are bound by law to disobey illegal orders," said another defense official, "but the question is what happens next?" Will we see resignations of senior military officers ?'
In this situation, it is also important who Trump gives the leadership of the Pentagon. However, one official said officials hoped Trump and his team would try to end the "hostility" that existed with the military during the previous term. "The relationship between the White House and the Department of Defense was really bad, and so I think they're going to be very careful about who heads the Department of Defense this time," a former official told CNN.
Last Tuesday, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin expressed his hope that US leaders will do the right thing in any situation and that the US Congress will do the right thing to support the military.
Last month, Trump said that the US military should be used to put down "enemies within America and radical left-wing lunatics". "I think the National Guard, if necessary, or the army, if really necessary, should be deployed easily," he said, referring to possible protests on election day.
Several former senior military officers, including Milli and former chief of staff and retired general John Kelly, who worked under Trump, have recently spoken out against his authoritarian tendencies. Before the election, Kelly spoke of loyalty to Hitler's Nazi journalists and said that Trump "fits into the general definition of a fascist".
There is nothing the Pentagon can do to protect against the potential abuse of military power by the chief of staff . Defense Ministry lawyers can make recommendations to military leaders about the validity of the order . But there is no real law preventing Trump from deploying US troops on US roads.
A former senior official of the Ministry of Defense who served under Trump says that there is a possibility of deploying troops to assist with customs and border security on the southern border . Thousands of soldiers, National Guard and reserve forces have already been deployed in the area. The Joe Biden administration deployed 1,500 active duty forces last year.
According to that official, there is a situation where US troops can be deployed in different cities to help with the mass deportation plan, as Trump said in his election speeches. The law enforcement agencies do not have the required manpower. The army will arrange helicopters, trucks, etc. that are not with those agencies,' he says.
But he says the decision to send active-duty troops onto American roads cannot be taken lightly. Another official told CNN that if the Trump administration deploys thousands of troops to the border, it could affect the military's readiness to fight foreign threats.
