Has Trump Lost Control Of The Pentagon?

The Pentagon’s more aggressive military approach
Here is a short timeline of the Pentagon taking the presidential commander-in-chief power from Trump.
The ultimatums came on March 1.
On March 1, 2017 the Atlantic’s article ‘Trump and the Generals’
announced that Trump’s military leaders ‘increasingly sound like they’re working for a different president altogether.’
They complained about the lack of funding, even after Trump pledged to give them additional $54 billion that were cut from the budget of non-military agencies. Right after the budget announcement, it became immediately obvious that the Pentagon considered this sum to be ridiculously small for their ambitions.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on Apr 17, 2017.