Why is the commander in chief important to civilians?

Answer 1

chicken:P

Answer 2

The President of the United States is also the Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States (US Constitution Article II Section 2).

There's nothing in the Constitution that forbids a general from being President, and in fact 12 US Presidents (including the very first one, George Washington) have been retired military officers who held the rank of Brigadier General or higher ... that's slightly over a quarter of them. Nearly 3/4 of US Presidents have had a history of military service; in addition to the 12 former generals, there were another 19 Presidents who had been in the military, but achieved a maximum grade equivalent to O-6 (Colonel/Naval Captain) or lower. So it's safe to say that historically the US population as a whole has never seen any fundamental conflict between being a military man and being President and indeed tends to prefer it.

Department of Defense policy prohibits active duty service members from many sorts of partisan political activity and from running for or holding most types of elected public office.

Even without that policy, it would be impossible for a person to fulfill the duties of President and those of an active duty General simultaneously, since both jobs make substantial demands on a person's time; the only way it could be done would be for the "Generalship" to be a sinecure.

Answer 3

the commander-in-chief wasn't trained to handle situations such as warfare like people in the military were trained for.

Answer 4

LOL cuz he is the president of the US of A