Decline Of Senior Officer Integrity And Civilian Control Of The Military Authored by Keith T. Holcomb via RealClearDefense, Public confidence in the military has slipped. One major reason is the politicization of senior military officers, who show an increasing propensity to compromise their integrity to gain influence and achieve both budgetary and policy goals. Their willingness to spin carefully parsed and knowingly misleading testimony and advice compromises civilian control... Read this story