Today is the last day on the job of Mark Milley, America’s top uniformed military official. Milley became a political lightning rod, clashing with Donald Trump over everything from racial justice to Trump’s attempt to subvert the 2020 presidential election. He also took some extraordinary steps to assure Beijing that Trump would not start a diversionary war with China as part of his attempt to cling to power. Along the way he came in for a lot of criticism for overstepping the boundaries of what a general is supposed to do, and just this week Trump said that he ought to be