Gen. Milley is Stepping Down. Will His Replacement Be Even More “Woke”?

Appointed chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff by President Donald Trump, Milley will be retiring at the age of 65 after a distinguished, but controversial tenure as the nation’s highest-ranking member of the U.S. armed forces.

His leadership position is likely to be filled by Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., the Air Force Chief of Staff, or Gen. David Berger, the commandant of the Marine Corps. Milley’s successor will face near-unprecedented strategic challenges in the post-Cold War world, which is witnessing the rise of 5G (5th-generation) warfare driven by rapid technological advances.

America is entering a period of decline as a global hegemon. Chinese aggression is posing a serious threat to U.S. allies like Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea in the Pacific theater.

Meanwhile, the Biden administration is waging a de facto, undeclared proxy war in Ukraine to push back against Russian aggression. The U.S. is spearheading the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) effort to provide military and economic aid to Ukraine, a former Soviet republic that is not a member of NATO.

Milley, meanwhile, has pressed for the Biden administration to lobby for peace between Russia and Ukraine, as a December article in the New York Times reported.