Dr. Bradley Thayer

The military has its own domain.

The military deals with military decisions of its own accord.

but obeys civilian leadership.

And that's been the great strength of the US military, as well as all professional militaries,

and has led to tremendous military success are professionalization.

And that's unlike, for example, the Chinese Communist Party, which controls the People's Liberation Army, or in the Cold War, where the Communist Party of the Soviet Union controlled the Red Army, the Soviet Army.

They were politicized forces.

So what these Sikhs have done is done their utmost not just to sow discord,

That would be bad enough.

But they're undermining objective civilian control.

They're undermining the heart of the most successful civil military relationship that's existed in history.

And for that, they have to be held to account.

They cannot do that.

That's something which undermines our military effectiveness, that undermines the loyalty and calls into question the loyalty, of course, of all service members.

It's outrageous on its face, but it gets to something which is very deep, which is undermining the heart of civil-military relations.

Well, all of them should be dealt with.

Certainly Senator Kelly should be.

But this can't stand.

This is something which undermines what is essential for our national security.

It undermines the service men and women in our country.