Scroll down past News & Notes for a quick-take debate on the controversy surrounding Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff regarding his portrayal in the book Peril, by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa. 

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•Reader comment on the Biden Administration’s vaccine mandate.

•Macaulay on the vaccine mandate.

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Our Left Columnists on Whether Milley Should Resign

Taking the Opportunity to Do Right

Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley did what he thought was right for the country, trying to deal with a president who was clearly unbalanced. Every once in a while, there comes to a military man the opportunity to do right, and he did it. I do not believe what he did constitutes a usurpation of civilian power. – Jim McCraw

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Milley’s A Hero
Nuclear weapons have the potential to change our history to a deleterious effect. If any country is to be successful, it must have its people’s security at the forefront of its interest, especially physical over fiscal. Milley is a hero in the same way Soviet Vasily Aleksandrovich Arkhipov is. Arkhipov prevented a nuclear strike during the Cuban Missile Crisis, though he was only second in command in his submarine’s operation. Requiring unanimous consent for a nuclear strike (three out of three men’s consent), and submerged too far down in the trenches of the ocean to receive radio communication, the Soviets in their B-59 had no idea of whether war had already broken loose. Two out of three men believed a nuclear strike against American enemies was an appropriate decision. One man did not — Arkhipov himself, a rogue, kept world history from the ashes. President Biden should not ask for Gen. Milley’s resignation.  -- David Amaya