Brutal news accounts this week provide more proof of what we already knew: The chaos he’s creating is making the country weaker, not stronger.

The extent to which Trump’s “Secretary of War” has damaged the United States’ military capability is even worse than previously thought.

The US army has not had a chief of staff, the service’s top officer, since April and that’s just one of the many senior positions vacant at a time when the military is busier than…