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-Great Cultural Revolution
The Establishment Is Running Out of Cannon Fodder for Its Woke Military
2022-07-05
[Townhall] Jump out of a perfectly good airplane, charge a machine gun nest, be stationed at Ft. Irwin — these are just three of the myriad miseries American patriots are willing to endure to defend our country. But today's military is asking too much of our young people, as evidenced by the crashing recruitment rates that threaten to deplete a military already running short of soldiers. Have our young people suddenly turned from heroes to zeros, ne'er-do-well heirs of the brave warriors who confronted the forces of tyrannical gun control at Lexington and Concord?

No. The kids are alright. The problems lie echelons above.

Here's a little leadership secret that's actually not a secret at all to competent commissioned and non-commissioned officers. There are no bad cohorts of soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, Coast Guardsmen and whatever the hell Space Force people are called. There are only bad leaders, and we have the worst military leadership in American history, starting right at the top with a commander-in-chief who is less like Ike than Beavis.
Posted by:Besoeker

#2  ..how long did the Wagner group last in Syria when they came up against a real military? /rhet question.

Yep, long history of Praetorian Guards (who in turn seem to end up deciding who their 'ruler' is).
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-07-05 15:13  

#1  Hopefully we'll have fewer wars.

But come on, that's a naive hope. What happens historically in this case is that the powerful will hire mercenaries to do the killing for them. Blackwater, Triple Canopy, Wagner Group...does it really matter? They're all the same in the end.
Posted by: Albemarle Snerert7268   2022-07-05 14:59  

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