Many staff at the Pentagon are extremely upset that they would be removed from command positions when they are much better informed than POTUS about national security objectives. Only the Pentagon's experianced command staff are intellectually fit to lead in modern war.

For example, take Maj. Gen. Arthur Sullivan's comment regarding his intricate knowledge and experience of leadership and command:

I know the kings of England and I quote the fights historical from Marathon to Waterloo in order categorical. I'm very well acquainted with matters mathematical. I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical. About binomial theorem, I'm teeming with a lot of news and many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse. I'm very good at integral and differential calculus. I know the scientific names of beings animalculous. In short, in matters vegetable, animal and mineral, I am the very model of a modern major-general.