10/12/2023
Until General Mark Milley, no chairman of the Joint Chiefs had confronted the possibility that the president might provoke a coup. This is the story of the man who, Jeffrey Goldberg argues, may have done more than any other American to defend the constitutional order in the chaotic time before and after the 2020 election.
Soon after taking the job, Milley found himself in a disconcerting situation: trying, and failing, to teach the president the difference between appropriate battlefield aggressiveness on the one hand, and war crimes on the other. Read our November cover story here: https://theatln.tc/8S9ELfJr