Loyalty above all.

[potone]

2. I hadn't thought of it this way...

but you are right. This looks like an attempt to co-opt the military into supporting his policies. But he may be in for a surprise: most high-level generals are capable of independent thought, and some may even be accepting jobs in his administration in order to try to curtail his behavior.

Of course, this may just be my desperate attempt to try to see something that isn't disastrous in what we are facing for the next four years, assuming the country–and world–lasts that long. Time will tell...