The Joint Chiefs Know Crazy When They See It

Stopping a coup isn’t treason

Gen. Mark Milley courtesy DoD on Flickr

There is a good moment in the film Valkyrie, about the July 20 plot to kill Hitler, where the leader of the Berlin home division realizes that his orders to arrest the leadership of the SS were not about protecting Hitler but rather overthrowing him. His subordinate asks him about stopping the coup, and he snaps, “We *are* the coup, you…