As senators raise concerns about ‘unstable’ Donald Trump’s decision-making, former commander says military is ‘not obligated to follow illegal orders’US military commanders would refuse to carry out a presidential order to carry out a nuclear first strike that they thought was illegal, senators were told on Tuesday. “Once that order is given and verified, there is no way to revoke it,” the Tennessee senator said. Democrats perturbed by Trump's threat of pre-emptive North Korea strike Read more“If there is an illegal order presented to the military, the military is obligated to refuse to follow it. “I don’t have confidence that a military chain of command would reject an order by the president to launch nuclear weapons in a preventative nuclear war situation,” Markey told the Guardian after Tuesday’s hearing. It is not clear it would be any different for a nuclear first strike, despite Gen Kehler’s statements.”

Source: The Guardian November 14, 2017 22:41 UTC