WASHINGTON ― Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wis.) said in a recent interview that retired U.S. Army General Mark Milley and former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin should be court-martialed ― a military legal proceeding typically reserved for serious crimes ― because they made the Department of Defense too “politicized” to win wars.
“We have the most highly educated and powerful military in the history of the world, and we have not won a war in 80 years,” Van Orden lamented during a little-noticed Jan. 15 interview on the Vicki McKenna Show, a right-wing radio show.
He said the Department of Defense over the decades “has become politicized,” and it reached its peak when it was run by Lloyd and Milley.
“Those guys need to be recalled to active duty and court-martialed for their disgraceful conduct,” said Van Orden. “It’s been terrible. They’ve broken the military.”
The court martial process is the most severe legal proceeding that someone in the military can face….
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