When you just found out that Trump took North Carolina
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Smart move purging parts of the Pentagon ahead of time. Trump seems to know what he's doing, even if the Republican establishment has to be dragged kicking and screaming into victory.
Obama played the same game, pushing out every general officer he felt he couldn't 100% control. It's part of the role of commander-in-chief and part recognition of the influence the military wing of the military-industrial-congressional complex wields.
Difference is that I don't think Trump can 100% control any agency in the way that Obama is aiming for.
The military doesn't need to be controlled. In its natural state, it is fairly conservative; the propaganda machine that drives recruitment into America's martial class is primarily grounded in the sanitized legends of its founding - the same one which is a unifying pillar of the right wing in general.
Not sure what you mean by that. The 'martial class' isn't even supposed to be a thing. At the same time the actual founding of the military are all in the form of militias.