Trump and the US military: Friends or foe?

In the past month, the United States has withdrawn troops from Syria and the Islamic State leader died during a US raid. But does this show that President Donald Trump is working well with officials or pursuing his own strategy against advice?

The BBC spoke to Derek Chollet, a security and defence expert at The German Marshall Fund of the United States. He previously worked at the Pentagon in the Obama administration.

1 November 2019