{"id":703184,"date":"2021-08-31T12:50:51","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T16:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=703184"},"modified":"2021-08-31T12:50:53","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T16:50:53","slug":"top-retired-military-officers-call-on-milley-austin-to-resign-over-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-retired-military-officers-call-on-milley-austin-to-resign-over-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Retired Military Officers Call on Milley, Austin To Resign Over Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftop-retired-military-officers-call-on-milley-austin-to-resign-over-afghanistan%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=703184&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"30.175152749491\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/\">National Security<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">&#8216;There must be accountability at all levels for this tragic and avoidable debacle&#8217;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1336140546_736x514-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1336140546_736x514-1.jpg 736w, https:\/\/s2.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1336140546_736x514-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/s2.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1336140546_736x514-703x491.jpg 703w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tSecretary of Defense Lloyd Austin (L) and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, (R) depart from a briefing with the House of Representatives on the situation in Afghanistan at the U.S. Capitol on August 24, 2021 in Washington, DC. \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/jack-beyrer\/\" title=\"Posts by Jack Beyrer\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Jack Beyrer<\/a> \u2022 August 31, 2021 12:40 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"77.496673003802\">\n<p><span>More than 80 retired senior military officers are calling for the resignations of Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Mark Milley following the Biden administration&#8217;s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;The consequences of this disaster are enormous and will reverberate for decades, beginning with the safety of Americans and Afghans who are unable to move safely to evacuation points; therefore, being de facto hostages of the Taliban at this time,&#8221; Flag Officers 4 America, a group of retired generals and admirals across all military services except the Space Force, <a href=\"https:\/\/flagofficers4america.com\/read-and-sign-our-letters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> in a statement Monday. &#8220;Trust in the United States is irreparably damaged.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The coalition of retired officers\u2014which includes Reagan national security adviser and retired vice admiral John Poindexter, former rear admiral Rep. Ronny Jackson (R., Texas), and former four-star admiral and vice chief of naval operations Jerome Johnson\u2014took aim at military leadership, saying adversaries such as China and Russia &#8220;are emboldened to move against America due to the weakness displayed in Afghanistan.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;A fundamental principle in the military is holding those in charge responsible and accountable for their<br \/>actions or inactions,&#8221; the retired officers wrote. &#8220;There must be accountability at all levels for this tragic and avoidable debacle.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The coalition also said a culture of &#8220;wokeness&#8221; promoted by military leadership is further grounds for resignations, saying it is &#8220;extremely divisive and harmful to unit cohesion, readiness, and warfighting capability.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>President Joe Biden ignored advice from senior military leadership in the lead up to the Taliban takeover of the country, which resulted in the deaths of 13 U.S. service members, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/biden-contradicts-milley-on-decision-to-abandon-bagram\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to some reports. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>There is historical precedent for top national security staff resigning after foreign policy debacles. President Bill Clinton&#8217;s secretary of defense, Les Aspin, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/archive\/politics\/1993\/12\/16\/defense-chief-aspin-quits\/ee843902-1b6c-4741-887a-d4f6c3cf8c2e\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>resigned<\/span><\/a><span> from his post after 18 American troops died in Somalia.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Security &#8216;There must be accountability at all levels for this tragic and avoidable debacle&#8217;  Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin (L) and Chairman of the Joint &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}