There is ABSOLUTELY nothing new about this, it's been going on since post-WW2. Generals are politicians now. Soldiers are career yes men, not the citizen-soldiers that Republicans dream them to be. The entire military system, from top to bottom, has been designed so that the military answers to the federal government - to the establishment - and not to some charismatic president nor loyal to their home states. The Commander in Chief is such in name only. Trump was even deceived about the full extent of US operations in Syria. The military is not on the President's side, and arguably has never been on any President's side for decades.