Milley Calls for `Hard Look` at Renaming Bases Honoring Confederates
(WorldNews Politics)

WASHINGTON — The top military official in the United States called Thursday for taking “a hard look” at changing the names of Army bases honoring Confederate officers who had fought against the Union during the Civil War, disagreeing with President Donald Trump and further exposing a divide between the military and the president. Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Trump`s senior military adviser, told a House hearing that the base names had become an issue of “divisiveness.” Ten Army bases that honor Confederate generals who fought to defend the slaveholding South have been the focus of a growing movement for change. “There...