Democracy, Populism, & Domestic Politics, Power & Security, United States For military’s top man, navigating the Trump-Biden transition is his biggest test yet

Perry World House Director of Communications and Research John Gans is quoted in this article from The Washington Post on Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark A. Milley.

Days after cameras captured him walking alongside President Donald Trump across a square near the White House that had been violently cleared of protesters, Army Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, sat in his office across the Potomac assessing the fallout...

“He is one of the people who bear the scars of the Trump years,” said John Gans, a former Obama administration official who wrote a book about national security decision-making. “That may not be his fault, but that is the fate of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, which was being chairman under Donald Trump.”

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