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| America's Humiliated and Demoralized Military |
| 2022-09-24 |
"In fact it's gone full imperial with the end of the citizen soldier and the rise of what is for all intents and purposes a mercenary professional military that has been with the country for decades now." The comments are also well-thought out and worth reading. "As an Army vet, never have I been so offended by something I absolutely agree with." Black Pigeon's content is highly recommended and you should subscribe to his channel for more like this. |
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| Posted by: Skidmark 2022-09-24 08:21 |
| #1 "In fact it's gone full imperial with the end of the citizen soldier and the rise of what is for all intents and purposes a mercenary professional military that has been with the country for decades now." Someone doesn't study real history. The American army was always a small often underfunded, undermanned professional army. See - Francis Prucha's "The Sword of the Republic", Robert Utley's "Frontiersmen in Blue"and "Frontier Regulars" and Edward Coffman's "The Old Army".* For most of over its first 150 years expanded only at time of major war and then demobilized shortly there after. I'm sure our Native Americans would point out that what occurred in that period may well be described as 'imperialism'. We demobilized after WW2. It wasn't till 1948 after a series of successful and unsuccessful coups in Eastern and Southern Europe coupled with the Berlin Blockade, that the first long 'peacetime' draft was instituted. That is when Washington decided to become the world's policeman. Suddenly it had a big hammer and everything looked like a nail. That undermined the structures of the old republic beginning the long slide to authoritarian rule. * interesting factoid - in the post Civil War army the largest single expense was hauling supplies to the many and distant outposts in the West. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-09-24 07:28 |