The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the US Army resigned from his post.
According to Al Jazeera news agency, Mark Milley (65 years old) announced his resignation from his military position at a military ceremony attended by Defense Minister Lloyd Austin and US President Joe Biden. Trump criticized.
In this military ceremony, Mark Milley said in a speech: “Since I assumed this position in October 2019, I have experienced many crises and as the Chief of Staff, alongside Lloyd Stone, the Secretary of Defense, the US military assistance to Ukraine during I have overseen the war with Russia.
In another part of his remarks, the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the US Army mentioned Afghanistan and claimed that the return of the Taliban group to power (2021) after 20 years of conflict in this country is a “strategic failure” in his career.
In his speech, he mentioned the tenure of this position during the period of Donald Trump and expressed his regret for being part of the Trump administration.
Milli’s unprecedented criticism of Trump on the last day of Milli’s tenure as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff shows that the US military has entered more into the turbulent political arena of this country since Trump’s time.
Milli’s statements are in the context of former US President Donald Trump attacking the actions of Mark Milli, the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the US Army, at the time of his withdrawal from Afghanistan, and considered him worthy of the death penalty.
It is said that Trump’s verbal attacks on Milley are due to the fact that the military official said in an interview with the American publication The Atlantic that Trump had no respect for the military.
Charles Brown, a US Air Force commander and the second African-American to reach the highest US military post, will replace Milley as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.