Source: The UnPopulist
by Kori Schake
“No American military officer has ever had to do what the constitutional crisis of 1866-1867 required of Ulysses S. Grant, then serving as the commanding general of the Army. President Andrew Johnson and Congress thrust him into adjudicating between their respective constitutional claims to civilian control of the military. This most fraught civil-military crisis did not occur in wartime; it was the result of both the president and Congress pulling the professional military into American domestic political disputes. Grant’s judgment wasn’t perfect; he was wrong before he was right. But he was right enough to provide a powerful precedent for our troubled times.” (02/23/26)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/if-forced-to-choose-our-military