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Donald Trump Can and *Should* Reshape the Pentagon As He Pleases – RedState

Of all the tasks President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to take on in his new term, reforming and restoring our military may be one of the biggest. The decline of our armed forces has arguably been going on since the end of the Cold War and Bill Clinton’s “Peace Dividend,” and has been accelerating under Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Donald Trump has the chance to set things aright – and when it comes to the Pentagon, he has the power to do it. The President of the United States has among his constitutionally-defined duties Commander-in-Chief of all the armed forces, and all officers of those armed forces serve at the pleasure of the president.





The question is, how will this president wield that power?

There has been speculation that President-elect Donald Trump could create an outside board to review the performance of senior military leaders, but he…

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