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2024-05-06 -Great Cultural Revolution

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Posted by Besoeker 2024-05-06 05:49|| || Front Page|| [199 views ] Top

#1 Those from the military who may aspire to high political office are too often removed or destroyed. They understand the realities and consequences of war and insist on victory. They can easily become a control problem and impede the Military Industrial Complex hunger for Forever Wars.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-05-06 06:12|| 2024-05-06 06:12|| Front Page Top

#2 ^^ Plus they're just 'icky' because they know how to use assault rifles.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2024-05-06 07:13|| 2024-05-06 07:13|| Front Page Top

#3 They have achieved a geo-political understanding and knowledge of foreign regions and peoples that oftentimes conflicts with ruling aristocracy goals and objectives.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-05-06 07:21|| 2024-05-06 07:21|| Front Page Top

#4 They have no problems with Praetorian Guards. They have big problems with armed people, the populous or the uniformed, who hold the Constitution to be worth defending to the last full measure of devotion.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-05-06 07:39|| 2024-05-06 07:39|| Front Page Top

#5 Wormuth Has down an outstanding job of thwarting the continuation of the warrior caste.

Posted by Super Hose 2024-05-06 10:05|| 2024-05-06 10:05|| Front Page Top

#6 Re warrior caste: remember McCain?

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-05-06 10:20|| 2024-05-06 10:20|| Front Page Top

#7 You could always renew the draft but be prepared for resistance and civil unrest in the case of unpopular wars like Vietnam. I believe that's how Lyndon Johnson lost his job. I hate to bring up Switzerland but, IIUC, they have universal conscription but never get into any wars. Nobody ever attacks them because getting up those mountains where the entire populace is shooting down at you might be too tough. The population goes along with it because they trust their leaders not to get them involved in foreign adventures where they have nothing at stake. That's a bit more than we can say.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2024-05-06 11:58|| 2024-05-06 11:58|| Front Page Top

#8 ^ we use to have a small standing army only expanded during wars. Even after WWII we demobilized only to reinstitute the peacetime draft in 1948. The justification was the Soviet threat. When the Wall came down, that mission was over and we should have drastically downsized the active component and drawn back to our own interests. Instead the MIC supported by the general officer corps resisted it to support playing the world's policeman. Something that fed right into the old Russian paranoia.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-05-06 12:29|| 2024-05-06 12:29|| Front Page Top

#9 If a new draft were to be implemented, how often would you hear the mantra “My Body, My Choice!?

Draft every trans person demanding better than equal rights. Let ‘em earn it.

Posted by Ulealing Stalin3479 2024-05-06 14:03|| 2024-05-06 14:03|| Front Page Top

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