"One important power that the President lacks is that of choosing his or her subordinates, whose grades and qualifications are determined by Congress and whose appointment is ordin…
"One important power that the President lacks is that of choosing his or her subordinates, whose grades and qualifications are determined by Congress and whose appointment is ordinarily made by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, though undoubtedly Congress could if it wished vest their appointment in the President alone.14 Also, the President’s power to dismiss an officer from the service, once unlimited, is today confined by statute in time of peace to dismissal pursuant to a sentence of a general court-martial or in commutation of a sentence of a court-martial.15 But the provision is not regarded by the Court as preventing the President from displacing an officer of the Army or Navy by appointing with the advice and consent of the Senate another person in his or her place.16 Congress has not limited the President’s power of dismissal in time of war."
So if a general is still a general, who does he command? Apparently the president through Hag Sith will be able to. But I should think that soldiers under the command of a particular general, whose orders they trust, are not going to be happy campers if a toady suddenly replaces their line of command.
Every soldier disguntled like this is that much closer to that Soviet submarine guy who refused orders to fire a nuke during the Cuban Missile crisis, --a guy to whom we probably own our current ability to argue about this at all.
Are we talking firing from the Pentagon or firing from the military? Because kicking them out of the military looks rather tricky.
From https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artII-S2-C1-1-13/ALDE_00013475/
"One important power that the President lacks is that of choosing his or her subordinates, whose grades and qualifications are determined by Congress and whose appointment is ordinarily made by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, though undoubtedly Congress could if it wished vest their appointment in the President alone.14 Also, the President’s power to dismiss an officer from the service, once unlimited, is today confined by statute in time of peace to dismissal pursuant to a sentence of a general court-martial or in commutation of a sentence of a court-martial.15 But the provision is not regarded by the Court as preventing the President from displacing an officer of the Army or Navy by appointing with the advice and consent of the Senate another person in his or her place.16 Congress has not limited the President’s power of dismissal in time of war."
So if a general is still a general, who does he command? Apparently the president through Hag Sith will be able to. But I should think that soldiers under the command of a particular general, whose orders they trust, are not going to be happy campers if a toady suddenly replaces their line of command.
Every soldier disguntled like this is that much closer to that Soviet submarine guy who refused orders to fire a nuke during the Cuban Missile crisis, --a guy to whom we probably own our current ability to argue about this at all.