Retired US General Mark Hertling sat on Monday evening in the podcast \u201cDeadline: White House\u201d on MSNBC and said something that would have been unthinkable in normal times: Active military commanders are thinking about refusing orders from their commander in chief Donald Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not out of disloyalty. But out of duty.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Mark Hertling is a former Lieutenant General of the US Army with over 35 years of service and was among the senior commanders of US forces in Europe. He led, among other things, US Army Europe. Hertling explained how he was trained for 40 years as a soldier and commander - and how in that training three loyalties exist side by side: to the Constitution, to superiors, to one\u2019s own soldiers. Three oaths of loyalty that usually align. And sometimes do not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIf they start giving unlawful orders, you find a way to push back,\u201d Hertling said. \u201cYou cannot follow an unlawful order. You cannot order things that you know are absolutely wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n