I wouldn’t be so sure. He might, but then again, the high-level leadership of the US military is extremely constitutionally minded. All their training and a lot of their pride in what they do is rooted in it. He might decide, as the real horrors are starting to begin and no one really knows what to do about it, to fire anyone in the military who isn’t loyal to him, and he might get quite a severe shock when they took the loyalty of most of their troops with them when they left.
Firing the military because they won’t do what you want, so that then they’re kicking around loose in civilian society ready to be slotted into the rebellion and increase its power tenfold, is a pretty traditional rookie coup mistake.
I wouldn’t be so sure. He might, but then again, the high-level leadership of the US military is extremely constitutionally minded. All their training and a lot of their pride in what they do is rooted in it. He might decide, as the real horrors are starting to begin and no one really knows what to do about it, to fire anyone in the military who isn’t loyal to him, and he might get quite a severe shock when they took the loyalty of most of their troops with them when they left.
Firing the military because they won’t do what you want, so that then they’re kicking around loose in civilian society ready to be slotted into the rebellion and increase its power tenfold, is a pretty traditional rookie coup mistake.