Think of the reasons you would need them. Nuclear war. Attack by a biological weapon that incapacitates government. Communist infiltration of all 3 branches that causes incapacitation of government. Attack on critical infrastructure that disables government. National emergency.

In such scenarios, the military wants to fold in on itself. No one else can be trusted. In our case, we were hit with a bio weapon that was used to assist in the destruction of the electoral system, with assistance from bad actors in every branch of government, all the way up to the Vice President.

You have the most powerful law enforcement agency on earth, the FBI, and the most powerful intel agency on earth, the CIA, actively assisting the enemy. Along with everyone in the normal chain of command except for one guy at the top.

In short, everything is fucked and can’t be trusted. Even the military itself has been infiltrated to the top (Milley). So these orders are direct from the potus, to individual persons that can be trusted, im assuming the 11 combatant commanders.

The Chinese may as well have detonated a nuke in DC, with all 3 branches of government helping them plant it there. Shits fucked, and it’s gonna take forever to clean it up.