Alexander Vindman begins his recent piece for Democracy with a troubling revelation. “Over the past two decades,” he writes, “there has been a steady erosion of civil-military relations in the United States due to the politicization of the military.”
Vindman knows what he’s talking about. A retired Army lieutenant colonel, he was removed from his position on the National Security Council in 2020 after he told House impeachment investigators that he had heard President Trump ask the president of Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden.
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In his essay for Democracy, Vindman offers a clear-eyed analysis of the state of relations between our military leaders and civilian authorities. It isn’t reassuring. According to Vindman, growing partisanship within the ranks and politicians’ willingness to capitalize on public respect for the military now pose a threat to our national defense—and our democracy.
Read on to learn the three things that Vindman believes we can do to “mend the growing chasm and ensure that both civilian and military entities work cohesively to uphold the democratic ideals upon which the United States was founded.”
