The truth behind the Mark Milley story

Yes, tensions with China were high when the Joint Chiefs chairman intervened, but for reasons that are in some ways scarier than Trump’s craziness

Last week’s big Washington Post story about Gen. Mark Milley—about action he took in the final months of the Trump presidency to ensure that Trump’s emotional instability didn’t lead to war—sounded like something out of a Heroes of The Resistance TV series. Without authorization—and undaunted by the consequences of going rogue—the Chairman of the Joint …