JLIdiot, errr DSKIdiot, what more evidence would you like other than General MacArthur's actions were clearly insubordinate?
Bottom line: the General was given an order, specifically from POTUS and he refused to obey. You do not need to know anything else!
Officers and Enlisted Men cannot pick and choose which orders to obey! If the orders came from a person higher in the Chain of Command, it is every soldiers job to carry out their orders, to the very best of their ability.
Once again, a soldier cannot pick and choose!
Everyone learns on the day they enter the military that everyone answers to someone. Whether you are the lowest ranking recruit or the highest ranking officer.
Like him/her or not, the person sitting on top of the Chain of Command in the United States Army is:
Yes, you guessed it, POTUS.
US Army Chain of Command follows:
The chain of command in Army basic training runs from the lowest ranking recruit all the way to the President of the United States. Simply, the Army basic training chain of command is as follows:
Recruit
Drill Sergeant
Executive Officer
Company Commander
Battalion Commander
Brigade Commander
Division Commander
Corps Commander
Army Chief of Staff
Secretary of the Army
Secretary of Defense
Commander-in-Chief (President of the United States.)
http://www.military.com/join-armed-f...f-command.html
Originally Posted by bigtex
Take this you simple minded sodomite:
The Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) 809[890].ART.90 (20), makes it clear that military personnel need to obey the "lawful command of his superior officer," 891.ART.91 (2), the "lawful order of a warrant officer", 892.ART.92 (1) the "lawful general order", 892.ART.92 (2) "lawful order". In each case, military personnel have an obligation and a duty to only obey Lawful orders and indeed have an obligation to disobey Unlawful orders, including orders by the president that do not comply with the UCMJ. The moral and legal obligation is to the U.S. Constitution and not to those who would issue unlawful orders, especially if those orders are in direct violation of the Constitution and the UCMJ.
During the Iran-Contra hearings of 1987, Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, a decorated World War II veteran and hero, told Lt. Col. Oliver North that North was breaking his oath when he blindly followed the commands of Ronald Reagan. As Inouye stated, "The uniform code makes it abundantly clear that it must be the Lawful orders of a superior officer. In fact it says, 'Members of the military have an obligation to disobey unlawful orders.' This principle was considered so important that we--we, the government of the United States--proposed that it be internationally applied in the Nuremberg trials." (Bill Moyers, "The Secret Government", Seven Locks Press; also in the PBS 1987 documentary, "The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis.")
Senator Inouye was referring to the Nuremberg trials in the post WW II era, when the U.S. tried Nazi war criminals and did not allow them to use the reason or excuse that they were only "following orders" as a defense for their war crimes which resulted in the deaths of millions of innocent men, women, and children. "In 1953, the Department of Defense adopted the principles of the Nuremberg Code as official policy" of the United States. (Hasting Center Report, March-April 1991)
