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LadyEllen -> RE: Demilitarizing America (5/6/2008 2:12:44 AM)
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You dont need over a million personnel to defend the US; in fact you'd likely only need 100,000 professionals to operate all the vehicles and gadgetry and another 10,000 for service and support, with the small arms element of any defensive force made up from the well armed US citizenry. And thats only if anyone was foolish enough to be able to attack the US at all, since the US would have a General every bit as effective as the renowned General Winter of the Russian army. The only realistic prospect of successful military invasion would be to make two landings, each many more times larger than D-Day, one on the west and one on the east coast, keep the Canadians out of it and go like crazy whilst trying to maintain very long supply lines. But then, the organisation, resources, secrecy and multinational cooperation that would require makes it a realistic prospect only on paper.
What you need a massive military for, is to project power globally and like with our Empire, to maintain and extend one's commercial interests.
Many here complain vociferously about "the corporations", but when one considers that this mighty military is not defending the US, nor even bringing advantage to the ordinary US citizen, but is there to uphold the "right" of the corporations to rip someone off far outside the borders of the US, (the same corporations who rip off those within the borders of the US), it seems a little strange to celebrate such prowess.
Still, if the US didnt do it, then someone else would. Just as when we stopped playing Empire, someone else did.
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