Tom Nichols: “Now that Trump has captured the intelligence services, the Justice Department, and the FBI, the military is the last piece he needs to establish the foundations for authoritarian control of the U.S. government.”Garrett Graff: “With the ouster of Brown and Franchetti, the remaining top military leaders — known as the Joint Chiefs of Staff — are once again all white and male, a particularly pointed power imbalance given the fact that the country’s racial and ethnic minorities make up nearly 40 percent of national forces and women constitute fully a fifth of the ranks.”