Profesional military has its downsides.
“an overweening executive that now most endangers the bargain, threatening to break the American civil-military bargain by dragging the military into politics. Remember, the civil-military bargain is not merely a pact of submission by the military to civilian authority, but also a determination by civilian authorities not to pull the military into politics, not to use the military in internal, partisan political ways, because repeatedly doing so will, inevitably, eventually wear down the a-political nature of the military, sandpapering away the professional ethos that keeps the military from using bullets instead of ballots.”
https://acoup.blog/2025/07/04/collections-the-american-civil-military-relationship/