Should the next US President renounce the post of Commander-in-Chief??
The very point of the President holding the office of C-in-C is to ensure that the Armed Forces of the United States remain under civilian control. Without it, there’s a real danger of the military being too divorced from the State and therefore able to develop a state-within-a-state, and so threaten to intervene in civilian politics. The President is not there so much to command military forces in the same way a trained general would; his more the liaison, the go-between, between the military and the civilian world, which otherwise would be completely at disagreement. Considering the increasing demilitarisation of civilian life, the reduced sized of the military, and great length of time since the last draft, this yawing gap is wider than ever. The President is the face of the State to the military, and vice-versa; his is to reconcile the two to ensure the safe running of both for the purposes of good and responsible government, and an effective fighting force..
