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We are commanded by the civilians, yes: but if given an unlawful order are not supposed to follow it. This does not seem to relate to the point Glenn is making: officers were asked to do illegal things, thus compromising their oath. I myself always refused what I took to be an unlawful order, which sometimes got me into rather strange confrontations (and ultimately, yes, I did leave, because it seemed to me the higher in rank you went the more corrupt it became, so that it began to seem that a life of continual confrontation would be the result). But that the military is under the control of the civilian politicians does not negate an oath to uphold and defend the constitution, and that seems to me to be the key point.
