House Armed Services Committee Chairman Howard P. “Buck” McKeon, R-Santa Clarita, made the following statement about the new White House landmine announcement:
“It’s disappointing to see that, once again, the White House has overruled the advice of our military commanders. General Dempsey testified just a few months ago: ‘I have rendered my military advice that I consider land mines, especially the ones that we have….to be an important tool in the arsenal of the Armed Forces of the United States.’
“With the security situation around the world deteriorating, the last thing we should be doing is a unilateral jettisoning of sound defensive options. We’re all in this together, and we all share the risk when the best advice of our best military experts is ignored.”
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It’s nice that the General considers landmines to bean important “tool”, but he doesn’t run the military. The President does. I suspect the armed forces can get along just fine without mines that generally kill more civilians than enemy soldiers.
This is why we have a civilian as commander in chief, you can listen but there is no requirement to follow military advise.I sense Buck would always follow.