That may well be, even if it’s of more than passing interest that the candidate with the second-highest donation total for the same period was Donald Trump⁠—whose desire to rid America of its foreign wars is a matter of public record. Then, too, just as Jonathan Stevenson, a former national security council official during the Obama years, was noodling on about Trump’s “waning influence” among those in uniform in the pages of the New York Times on Wednesday, the commander-in-chief was tweeting out a message aimed at solidifying their support. “We are acting as a police force, not the fighting force that we are, in Afghanistan,” Trump tweeted. “After 19 years, it is time for them to police their own Country. Bring our soldiers back home but closely watch what is going on and strike with a thunder like never before, if necessary!” This is only to conclude that while Donald Trump continues to offend, insult and one-up the U.S. military’s senior commanders, that’s far less important to those who are actually fighting America’s wars⁠—so long as he keeps his pledge to end them.

Mark Perry is the author of ten books, including The Most Dangerous Man In America, the Making of Douglas MacArthur. You can follow him on Twitter at @markperrydc.