# General Milley promising to tip off China in advance if America planned to attack: OPSEC violation?

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> [@Sunny\_Daze](#):
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> The military has a duty not to follow unlawful orders. If the commander-in-chief either gives an unlawful order, or is incapacitated, then the military has to consider those factors.

On what basis would an order to launch a nuclear strike be “unlawful”? My understanding is that the President has the legal power to do so, unless that power is removed from him via impeachment or 25th-Amendment action.

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