Mark Milley

**Mark Alexander Milley** (June 20, 1977 -) was an American soldier and politician who held office as the 51st president of the United States from September 6, 2041 until his deposition on March 5, 2043. Additionally, in Milley also served as the executive chairman of the Committee of National Renewal during his presidency, making him the head of the ruling military junta, and was the chairman of the joint chiefs from January 1, 2040 until March 5, 2043. Prior to his 2041 coup d'état, Milley had previously been the commander of NATO forces during the Conquest of Africa and was the military governor of captured territory in north Africa until his appointment as chairman of the joint chiefs.

Born in 1977, Milley attended the University of Massachusetts from 1995 to 1998, before taking part in the Princeton's Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps program and graduating with a commission in 2000. During his military career, Milley served within several regiment and held multiple command positions across eight divisions. In August 2035, Mark Milley was appointed as chief of staff of the United States Army by President Selina Meyer and became the commanding head of the US army. Following the January 20 Attack in 2037, Milley was placed as the leader of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation's forces in the Middle East, and then later in Africa from late 2037 onwards. With the surrender of the Bovido Imperium in September 2038, NATO forces took control over the region of Algeria with Mark Milley as the military governor of the region.

Upon his return from active service, General Milley was appointed as chairman of the joint chiefs in January 2040. Whilst nominally non-partisan, General Milley was privately a critic of the Raines administration and actively opposed several planned defence reforms, as well as the government's foreign policy. In the aftermath of the disputed 2040 presidential election, Milley led the imposition of martial law across several states in the union and oversaw the relocation of Congress following the storming of the Capitol building in January 2041. With the army preventing Congress from assembling to elect a new president, General Milley instead became a key supporter of Robert Menendez's acting presidency and oversaw the army's increasing deployment across the United States. After growing frustrated with the Menendez administration, Milley led a coup d'état against the government in September 2041 and appointed himself president under a military junta.

During his presidency, Mark Milley presided over the widespread repeal of constitutional rights and the suspension of the United States constitution in November 2041, which left the Committee of National Renewal junta as the only form of constitutional government. Under Milley, the CNR committed numerous atrocities against citizens and political opponents of the regime, and consolidated several executive powers which had previously belonged to the presidency. Milley is regarded as being the most authoritarian person to hold the presidency, the first to have held office whilst serving in the armed forces, and the first to have taken office through an extra-constitutional seizure of office. Though his presidency was short, Milley's *de-facto* dictatorship fundamentally reshaped American politics and ushered in the seventh party system, with the rise of the pro-military Patriotic Movement for America, the populist American People's Party, and the left wing Progressive Party following Milley's abolition of the Republican and Democratic parties. Following defeat in the Battle for Los Angeles in February 2043, Mark Milley was removed from office in a coup by Admiral Michael Gilday on March 5, 2043, and sentenced to 20 years in prison for subverting the constitution of the United States. Despite this, the Committee of National Renewal remained in power until 2045, and Gilday continued many of Milley's authoritarian policies.

## History

### Military Career

Born in 1977, Milley attended the University of Massachusetts from 1995 to 1998, before taking part in the Princeton's Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps program and graduating with a commission in 2000. During his military career, Milley served within several regiments, including assignments with the 82nd Airborne Division, 5th Special Forces Group, 7th Infantry Division, 2nd Infantry Division, Joint Readiness Training Centre, 25th Infantry Division, Operations Staff of the Joint Staff, and a posting as Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defence. Additionally, Milley held multiple command and staff positions in eight divisions and special forces throughout his military career. He commanded 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry, 2nd Infantry Division, in Canogally from 2016 to 2018. He served as commander of 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light) from December 2023 to July 2025; deputy commanding general for operations of the 101st Airborne Division from July 2027 to April 2028, and as commanding general of the 10th Mountain Division from November 2031 to December 2032. Milley commanded III Corps, based at Fort Hood, Texas, from December 2032 to August 2034, and concurrently the International Security Assistance Force Joint Command from May 2033 to February 2034. He served as the commanding general of the United States Army Forces Command at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, from August 2034 to August 2035. In August 2035, Mark Milley was appointed as chief of staff of the United States Army by President Selina Meyer and became the commanding head of the US army.

### Commander of NATO forces in north Africa

Following the January 20 Attack on January 20, 2037 during the inauguration of President Alexandria Raines, the Raines administration triggered Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty against the Bovido Imperium, forcing the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation to mobilise its forces in defence of the United States of America. At the guidance of President Raines, Mark Milley was appointed as Commander of NATO forces in Africa and Asia, and oversaw the deployment of NATO forces into the middle east; whilst Milley personally advocated for a separate attack against the Bovido Imperium, President Raines and British prime minister Liz Truss led NATO into signing a coalition agreement with the Shanghai Pact to form a joint assault as part of the already ongoing Operation Invincible. With the launch of the Shanghai Pact's Operation Safeguard in late 2037, NATO forces under General Milley launched an attack on Jerusalem and were successful in encircling the city with the aid of Shanghai Pact forces. On December 1, 2037, the Shanghai Pact and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation announced a military alliance with the intention of defeating the Bovido Imperium in Africa. As part of this agreement, NATO forces launched into Saharan Africa from the Free Republic of Southern Sahara on December 2, 2037 under the overall leadership of General , overwhelming boarder guards and pushing forth into the desert, managing to push north enough to bridge Southern Sahara with the Shanghai Pact Administrative Zone in Africa by December 24, 2037 in a move dubbed the "Christmas Miracle" by British and American media. Following a series of major attacks on NATO headquarters in the middle east in January 2038, NATO leadership withdrew from the region, forcing General Milley to evacuate his command to Africa. After withdrawing from Jerusalem, NATO forces instead joined to become part of the Shanghai Pact's Operation Safeguard in northern Africa. With the surrender of the Bovido Imperium in September 2038, NATO forces took control over the region of Algeria with Mark Milley as the military governor of the region.

## Chairman of the Joint Chiefs

On November 18, 2039, President Alexandria Raines nominated General Mark Milley for the position of chairman of the joint chiefs, and on January 1, 2040, Milley took up the position after being confirmed by Congress. Whilst nominally non-partisan, General Milley was privately a critic of the Raines administration and actively opposed several planned defence reforms, as well as the government's foreign policy.

### 2041 Constitutional Crisis

 Main article: 2041 United States Constitutional Crisis

Following the disputed presidential election tie between President Alexandria Raines and Florida governor Ron DeSantis in November 2040, a contingent election was necessitated under the Twelfth Amendment to the United States constitution, and was scheduled to take place on January 6, 2041. However, during the congressional session dedicated to holding a contingent election, a riot broke out in the Capitol Hill grounds which ultimately seized control of the Capitol and held the joint chambers of Congress hostage. In response, President Raines declared martial law in Washington D.C. and ordered the army to recapture the Capitol. With the start of a siege around the Capitol building and the capture of Vice President Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, General Mark Milley and the military administration of Washington D.C. announced in the evening of January 6, 2041 that Congress would not resume session to certify results until every member of both chambers had been freed. During the siege, newly elected House Speaker Andrew Biggs was shot in the chest on January 8th as the military reclaimed control of the building, with Biggs dying hours after military control in the chamber was resumed. Despite having freed the twin houses of Congress, General Milley ordered the relocation of members to military bases across the country; in response, President Raines and Secretary of Defence Robyn Cohen held a joint press conference on January 10, 2041 denying that the order had come from them, and encouraged the army to allow elected members of congress to convene for a contingent presidential election. On January 12, 2041, General Milley and Senate president pro tempore Robert Menendez held secret political re-stabilisation talks in Washington D.C., before meeting with President Raines and Vice President Ocasio-Cortez at the White House to negotiate a way out of the constitutional crisis. Despite this, no contingent election was ever held, and on January 20, 2041, Robert Menendez was inaugurated as acting president of the United States.

During a visit to the United Kingdom in February 2041, President Menendez announced that he would resign immediately upon the election of a new president by Congress and called for the armed forces to release both chambers of the legislative branch; in response, General Mark Milley announced that the joint chambers would be escorted to reassemble in New York City on May 1st, and claimed that members of congress had agreed upon August 1, 2041 as the inauguration day for the new president. However, former vice president Mike Pence instigated *Pence vs United States Government* as a legal case before the Supreme Court to dispute Menendez's claim that candidates from the 2040 presidential election would be the only allowed candidates in the contingent election. As part of the constitutional review, Chief Justice Alexander Gowens ordered that congress could not assemble on May 1, 2041 for the contingent election until a final decision on the case had been made, effectively paralysing the transition of power.

On March 4, 2041, the traditional inauguration date of presidents prior to the ratification of the Twentieth Amendment in 1933, a series of riots and protests against the constitutional crisis took place in state capitols across the country, many of which turned violent and necessitated the enacting of the National Guard across 9 of the 50 states. Between March and May 2041, the Democratic governors of California, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, New York and Washington State were assassinated by members of pro-Republican paramilitary organisations, resulting in the proclamation of martial law in the states and the implementation of military rule across large swathes of the country. On June 9, 2041, a bombing at the Supreme Court building in Washington D.C. killed a majority of the court whilst it was in session, effectively decapitating the judiciary of the United States, with Justice Amy Coney Barrett becoming the only surviving member. With Congress suspended *sine die*, and the result of *Pence vs United States Government* unclear following the deaths of much of the Supreme Court, no constitutional method of permanent appointment to the court existed, leaving the judiciary in constitutional limbo. Determined to hold a peaceful transition of power, President Menendez formally invoked martial law across all states on June 28, 2041 and allowed the armed forces to appoint military governors for each state, each with the de-facto political powers formerly possessed by civilian officials

### Coup d'état

 Main article: 2041 United States Coup d'état
In the morning of September 6, 2041, military governors across the 50 states and Washington D.C. began moving military assets across the country to seize control over key parts of national infrastructure, such as interstate motorways, television networks, social media companies, and internet providers. At the same time, General Mark Milley travelled to the White House in Washington D.C. to meet with President Robert Menendez; during the meeting, Milley fruitlessly attempted to persuade Menendez to voluntarily resign his office, before ordering the forceful consolidation of army control over the building. In the ensuing conflict, Menendez was killed by a stray bullet whilst attempting to flee the White House, effectively toppling the democratic government of the United States. Following the death of President Menendez, acting Chief Justice Amy Barrett inaugurated General Milley to the office of president of the United States of America at 3:27pm EST, granting the military full executive control over the nation. At 5:45pm EST, General Mark Milley held a televised press conference announcing that President Robert Menendez had tendered his resignation, and that the armed forces would be forming a temporary military-civilian government for the remaining duration of the 2041-45 presidential term; during the coup process, Menendez's death was hidden from the general public, until November 19, 2041 when it was claimed that Menendez had died of a heart attack.

## Presidency

Following his coup against acting president Robert Menendez, General Mark Milley was sworn in as president of the United States of America by acting Chief Justice Amy Barrett at 3:27pm EST on September 6, 2041. Upon his inauguration as president, Milley established the Committee of National Renewal to take over the functions of the American government and filled the committee with loyalist politicians. On September 7, 2041, President Milley announced that former vice president Mike Pence would be assuming office as vice president once again under the junta government; the blending of military leadership with civilian loyalists conferred a degree of legitimacy on the new government, which sought to present itself as a legitimate and responsible government for the United States of America. In response to the appointment of conservatives and members of the Republican party to the governing Committee of National Renewal, large protests in major Democratic-leaning cities across the countries erupted as leading left-wing figures branded the takeover as a partisan coup to subvert an electoral mandate from the population; many of these protests were brutally surprised by members of the armed forces, only further encouraging further protests across the country. In response to the protests of civilians, total martial law was furthered with the implementation of curfews, checkpoints, and the requirement for personal identification cards.

### Suspension of the constitution

 Main article: 2041 Suspension of the United States Constitution
On November 11, 2041, President Milley announced that the United States constitution would be temporarily suspended and a new constitution written in its place; alongside the suspension of the constitution, the twin major political parties were officially prohibited, with membership becoming a civil offence. In place of the Democratic party, the protest driven Take Back America movement reformed into the Progressive party led by former president Alexandria Raines and chaired by former vice president Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, whilst the Republican party remnants fractured between the pro-military Patriotic party led by Elise Stefanik, and the libertarian Freedom party led by Liz Cheney. Following its suspension of the constitution, the government granted President Mark Milley the power to rule by decree in his capacity as the head of the governing Committee of National Renewal, further cementing the central governing role of the committee within American politics. During the first six months of his presidency, Mark Milley transferred significant portions of presidential executive power to the office of chairman of the CNR to weaken the presidency for the gain of the ruling junta, though Milley maintained full power in the United States due to his simultaneous position as both president and executive chairman of the Committee of National Renewal.

### Political reforms of 2042

Following the suspension of the United States Constitution on November 11, 2041, President Mark Milley began to implement a package of political reforms under the banner of the "Programme for America". Whilst not ideologically attached to any of the parties of the Patriotic Movement for America, under Milley the PMA increasingly became the political wing of the Committee of National Renewal and was utilised to gain grassroots support for the military regime. On April 18, 2042, Milley announced a widespread territorial reorganisation of the fifty American states into constituent provinces under a unitary government, largely stripping the states of their autonomous power; whilst the move was agreed unanimously by the committee, the dissolution of individual state governments was deeply unpopular with many citizens and led to digital protests. On May 17th, the CNR voted to begin the process of drafting a new constitution with a mandate to implement the new constitution before January 20, 2025, the start of the next presidential term under the suspended 1789 constitution. In response to the prospect of a new constitution written by the military junta, former presidents Alexandria Raines, Selina Meyer, and Alexander Turpin jointly rejected the authority of the CNR and called for an immediate transfer to democracy during a conference in Seattle on May 29, 2042, and the trio made regular appearances across the western coast calling for President Milley to resign from office during the spring. Amid rising pressure from opposition groups, the Committee of National Renewal called a week-long conference on the future of America at the Pentagon from August 17 to August 24, 2042; during the conference, divisions began to emerge between different factions of the government, with the Patriotic Party and armed forces leadership urging Milley to remain in power, whilst the American People's Party actively sought a return to civilian led government and the removal of the military from public life. On August 26, 2042, Emma Robertson of the APP withdrew her party's support for the regime after having been outvoted on constitutional proposals, and called upon Milley to resign the presidency; with the removal of the APP, the CNR erupted into a political crisis as its political wing began to collapse. In order to restore his personal control over the governing junta, on September 1, 2042 President Milley reshuffled the Committee of National Renewal and removed all members of the APP from the body, instead appointing loyalists from the military and the Patriotic party in their places, whilst general secretary Richard Perry of the Patriotic Movement for America began a reorganisation of the alliance into a de-facto political party.

### Legionary revolution and Battle for Los Angeles

 Main articles: American Legionary Conflict and Battle for Los Angeles
On November 19, 2042, former president Alexander Turpin was shot by a government agent during a pro-democracy rally in Arizona, prompting spontaneous riots to occur against military forces in major liberal cities; whilst Turpin survived the assassination attempt, the notion that the government would go as far as to attempt to kill former presidents caused widespread outrage across the country. In response to the government's actions, major trade unions called for a general strike, whilst the American People's Party urged citizens to attempt an insurgency against the government. On December 11, 2042, army forces in Washington state launched a mutiny against the Committee of National Renewal and pledged loyalty to APP leader Emma Robertson, who founded the National Legion as a paramilitary force to encompass soldiers loyal to her party - the National Legion expanded on December 14th with the defection of the staff of Los Angeles Air Force Base, followed by Naval Base San Diego and Training Fort Irwin on December 17th. Whilst initially consolatory towards the National Legion, President Mark Milley ordered the destruction of the faction during a committee meeting in January 2043 and launched an attack on Los Angeles Air Force Base on February 18, 2043. During the Battle for Los Angeles, the Air Force launched an attack under the command of Lt. Col. Graham Arnem against the National Legion base in the city, with the 135th Air Division launching waves of *F-22A Raptor* fighter jets, *Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider* bombers, and a series of *AC-130J Ghostrider* attack planes in a bid to gain air superiority in the city. Despite possessing a smaller supply of planes, National Legion forces under the command of Master Sergeant Joanne Bass succeeded in repelling government forces after launching a cyber attack which crippled Air Force technology, whilst also utilising several squadrons of *F-35A Lightning II* and *F-16 Fighting Falcon* fighter jets to repel Air Force planes from the region in the evening of February 19th. With the failure of the 135th Air Division to reclaim Los Angeles Air Base, the CNR redirected the 17th Air Wing to aid in the attack on the National Legion. On February 23, 2043, President Mark Milley gave a televised ultimatum to the National Legion to surrender, threatening to bomb the city of Los Angeles if the group did not stand down its forces, which was received with a mixture of derision and outrage from various groups; the APP and National Legion called the move a "strategic bluff" and mocked the "weakness" of Milley, whilst elements within the loyalist armed forces decried the threat as a "concerning assault on innocent civilians". On February 28, 2043, the 17th Air Wing launched a bombing campaign against the city of Los Angeles which lasted for four hours between 11am and 3pm, whilst divisions from the 135th Air Division launched a second attack on Los Angeles Air Base to draw away the National Legion from being able to protect the city; during the attack, an estimated thousand Americans lost their lives and millions of dollars worth of damage was wrought, whilst several dozen servicepeople from both sides were killed in action.

### 2043 Coup d'état

 Main article: 2043 United States Coup d'état
Following Mark Milley's authorisation of military force against innocent civilians during the Battle for Los Angeles in February 2043, several senior military figures within the Committee of National Renewal privately expressed their discontent with Milley's leadership, with several members of the Patriotic Movement for America alliance penning a letter to President Milley to express their concern with his leadership on March 2, 2043. On March 3, 2043, President Milley held a conference with members of the CNR to gauge levels of internal opposition to his leadership of the junta; during the meeting, armed forces director Michael Gilday and deputy chairwoman Elise Stefanik both expressed concern at the use of military force against civilians but were condemned by Milley and vice president Mike Pence for undermining the CNR. In the evening of March 5th, armed forces in Washington D.C. locked down the city under the guise of routine drills and closed all access to the city. Under the command of Admiral Michael Gilday, a squad of Marine Corps soldiers stormed the White House at 8:34pm and arrested President Mark Milley in a coup d'état, whilst Vice President Mike Pence was arrested at 8:42pm at his office in Number One Observatory Circle. Following his arrest, Milley was stripped of his position as chairman of the CNR, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and as president of the United States, with all three titles being assumed by Admiral Gilday.

## Post Presidency

Upon his removal from office as president of the United States of America on March 5, 2043, Mark Milley was also stripped of his positions as chairman of the Joint Chiefs and as chairman of the Committee of National Renewal, whilst also being demoted from the rank of general of the armies to a rank general, being dismissed from active service, and having his retirement pension abolished. On March 6, 2043, a court martial found Mark Milley to be guilty of conspiracy to overthrow the United States government and sentenced him to twenty years in prison.

## Service Summary

1. ↑ Revoked on March 5, 2043, with Milley being demoted to the rank of general and having his general of the armies pension revoked

## See Also

* Committee of National Renewal

 January 20, 2041 - September 6, 2041