Termination of Harris Cochrane

On February 5, 2021, U.S. President Tom Kirkman terminated acting chairman of the Joint Chiefs Harris Cochrane and decommissioned him from the United States Army after he unilaterally ordered a military operation without Kirkman's authorization.
Sammy Serafian, an operative of the Central Intelligence Agency, infiltrated Al-Sakar sixteen months earlier in Algeria. He communicated that Majid Nassar, the alleged mastermind behind the Capitol bombing, was located at his compound where he was undercover. Shortly after the transmission, Serafian went unheard from. Kirkman gave a 24 hour window for him to make contact before he would assume the worst and authorize a retaliatory strike on the compound to execute Nassar. Within that time frame, Cochrane claimed to U.S. Cyber Command that Kirkman had prematurely authorized Algerian air defenses to be taken offline ahead of a planned strike, unbeknownst to him. Kirkman subsequently terminated Cochrane for insubordination, and he was dishonorably discharged from the U.S. Army for violating his oath to obey the orders of the president of the United States, the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces.
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