{"id":12415,"date":"2020-06-08T13:42:57","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T20:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12415"},"modified":"2020-06-08T13:43:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T20:43:03","slug":"not-so-retiring-retired-military-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/not-so-retiring-retired-military-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Not-So-Retiring Retired Military Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes&nbsp;retired generals are deified. Ulysses S. Grant and Dwight D. Eisenhower won two presidential terms in landslide elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At other moments, war heroes such Generals Douglas MacArthur and Curtis LeMay were vilified as near insurrectionaries for their blistering attacks on sitting presidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In such a climate, the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which became effective law in May 1951, prohibits&nbsp;<em>active&nbsp;<\/em>generals from disparaging their commander in chief \u2014 in the way perhaps MacArthur had bitterly pilloried then-president Harry Truman over the Korean War. Article 88 of the UCMJ&nbsp;makes it a crime to voice \u201ccontemptuous words against the President, the Vice President, Congress, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of a military department, the Secretary of Homeland Security, or the Governor or legislature of any State.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But no one quite knows, and debate continues over, whether such codified prohibitions on free expression apply to&nbsp;<em>retired<\/em>&nbsp;generals receiving military pensions. Yet, given the spate of recent \u201ccontemptuous words against the President\u201d leveled from retired generals, it seems that few worry about regulation AR 27-10 of the code: \u201cRetired members of a regular component of the Armed Forces who are entitled to pay are subject to the UCMJ. (See Art. 2(a)(4), UCMJ.) They may be tried by courts-martial for offenses committed while in a retired status.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/06\/not-so-retiring-retired-military-leaders\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Sometimes&nbsp;retired generals are deified. Ulysses S. Grant and Dwight D. Eisenhower won two presidential terms in landslide elections. At other moments, war heroes such Generals Douglas MacArthur and Curtis LeMay were vilified as near insurrectionaries for their blistering attacks on sitting presidents. In such a climate, the Uniform Code [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3ef","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9674,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/has-trump-nominated-too-many-military-leaders-or-not-enough\/","url_meta":{"origin":12415,"position":0},"title":"Has Trump Nominated Too Many Military Leaders\u2014Or Not Enough?","author":"Megan Ring","date":"December 15, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0By Victor Davis Hanson\/\/ National Review Choosing military men for top cabinet spots is not unprecedented, nor is it foolish given how Washington insiders have performed. 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