“War is too important to be left to the generals.” Georges Clemenceau, French prime minister during World War I

Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley, a barrel-chested former Green Beret who has fought in five wars over four decades, considers himself a patriot, whose allegiance, he has said more than once, is not to any individual, not to a “king or queen, tyrant or a dictator,” but to the U.S. Constitution.