The military is the PRIMARY duty of the president.
No NO NO NO NO NO ... WRONG.
The primary duty of the president is not the military based on the Constitution, that charges him with the responsibility of running the executive branch of the government.
He is the Commander In Chief, not the General of the Army (kind of a difference), and as a civilian, his job is to keep control of the military and make sure it is always under civilian control.
His primary job is to govern the executive branch which includes being part of the legislative process, being the head of the government (and its workers) and to represent the country to foreign powers and the world among a lot of other little things. His military respoinsiblities are to order the deploying of troops when needed, to ensure our country has a viable military (that is a common sense responsibility) and to make sure our military follows the laws of the civilian world and the Constitution. You may notice that I did not include declare war under military obligations because that is not a military obligation but a foreign affairs one.
Military experience is not a requirement nor should ever ever be. A lot of people who didn't serve seem to have enough ethics and understanding of the government to govern.
The military is an important part of the country's defense but not of society, and that was the way it was intended. Just because a few think it should be, miss a lot of reasons why we split from England during the 18th century.
We should look past our need to have presidents who are field commanders, get rid of the notion that they need to know what this or that battle field theory does, but rather demand that our president actually moves the country forward.
Our society is at fault for a lot of things, one thing that we fail on is recognizing that our military is fighting a war, and that we don't understand that war in so much as we can't understand the enemy. That is the fault of our government as a whole, not a president who never served but everyone from Congress to the courts to the president.
After discussing trump last night, a few of us came to this conclusion;
He is an idiot.
He got his money not by being smart but being arrogant and having no ethics.
He is a person who prefers the spotlight and after two rock star presidents, we need someone who will take the job seriously.
If the republican party even considers him as a viable candidate, then the party is lost.
He really does not stand on anything and he compromises his principles too easily.
