I say try because maybe one woman in a thousand is fit to serve.
Just lower standards.
Also, I always find it ridiculous how I, as a very antiwar person, still want us to be better at war. We could be winning these wars I don't think we should be fighting...easily. And it would probably have a lower deathcount, even. It's just insane. We do war in the worst possible way, for all involved. Except the defense contractors, rebuilding companies, lobbyists, and the like, of course.
Please, if we're going to do war, can we at least do it competently? We're capable of it, the powers that be just choose not to do it that way. It's a fucking joke.
I remember stories from early in the Ukraine war where ex-US military guys who volunteered with the Ukrainian army were really not happy about fighting guys who could also call in artillery and air support.
Nah, that isn't why. Killing shit kickers has been a staple of human warfare for thousands of years.
Our rot comes from a different source. In part, altering our doctrine to counter insurgency contributed to the decay, but the true cause of that is the foolishness behind trying to rehabilitate mohammandan subhumans.
But the truth is that the decay is purposeful. Both of society and of our military.
I mean, one of the reasons why our Elites felt comfortable purposefully decaying such a thing is because they saw the power gap between us and those dirt farmers and thought our technology put us so far ahead we didn't need some mega awesome force.
J6 showed that they really don't consider themselves "mortal" or in an danger whatsoever physically, because they've been seeing war as something way over there that can never reach them. A game they don't need to take seriously and can play with.
If you haven't already, go read General Butler's War Is a Racket and Marine!, the General Puller biography. Our incompetence in warfighting is a direct result of corporate influence, and has been for a century. If we had super capable and competent militaries, we could get away with smaller militaries. Look at what the Marines were from 1940-1990 compared to the Army, and imagine if that concept were carried over to every service branch.
The fact that military men are often prohibited from maintaining their own damn equipment because of obscenely cronyist contracts genuinely shocked me the first time I heard about it. How the fuck are you supposed to fight a war if you have to wait for a licensed contractor technician to be sent over every time you need something fixed?
That's obviously a decision to prevent armies going rogue. If a division is self sufficient than that general can easily coup the government. No doubt that's how it was sold at first anyway.
Also, I just have to say, I despise modern leftists. They managed to take any of the positive points out, while keeping all the negatives. Antiwar? Slava Ukraini! Anti authoritarian? Nope...STATISTS.
Nothing more pathetic than a statist leftist, man.
I'd argue that all leftism is statism. They're only anarchists until they can take power. Their ostensible goals require overwhelming state power to enact upon the unwilling.
The reason why that contradiction doesn't bother them is because they're comfortable with their hypocrisy.
Just lower standards.
Also, I always find it ridiculous how I, as a very antiwar person, still want us to be better at war. We could be winning these wars I don't think we should be fighting...easily. And it would probably have a lower deathcount, even. It's just insane. We do war in the worst possible way, for all involved. Except the defense contractors, rebuilding companies, lobbyists, and the like, of course.
Please, if we're going to do war, can we at least do it competently? We're capable of it, the powers that be just choose not to do it that way. It's a fucking joke.
Decades of bullying poor farmers with rusty AKs and RPGs has made the US complacent and retarded.
I remember stories from early in the Ukraine war where ex-US military guys who volunteered with the Ukrainian army were really not happy about fighting guys who could also call in artillery and air support.
Nah, that isn't why. Killing shit kickers has been a staple of human warfare for thousands of years.
Our rot comes from a different source. In part, altering our doctrine to counter insurgency contributed to the decay, but the true cause of that is the foolishness behind trying to rehabilitate mohammandan subhumans.
But the truth is that the decay is purposeful. Both of society and of our military.
I mean, one of the reasons why our Elites felt comfortable purposefully decaying such a thing is because they saw the power gap between us and those dirt farmers and thought our technology put us so far ahead we didn't need some mega awesome force.
J6 showed that they really don't consider themselves "mortal" or in an danger whatsoever physically, because they've been seeing war as something way over there that can never reach them. A game they don't need to take seriously and can play with.
They did it not from neglect, but with a goal in mind. A patriotic, professional military would overthrow them for what they have planned.
Pinochet terrified them. They have been trying to prevent that ever since.
The enemy desires compliant slaves.
If you haven't already, go read General Butler's War Is a Racket and Marine!, the General Puller biography. Our incompetence in warfighting is a direct result of corporate influence, and has been for a century. If we had super capable and competent militaries, we could get away with smaller militaries. Look at what the Marines were from 1940-1990 compared to the Army, and imagine if that concept were carried over to every service branch.
The fact that military men are often prohibited from maintaining their own damn equipment because of obscenely cronyist contracts genuinely shocked me the first time I heard about it. How the fuck are you supposed to fight a war if you have to wait for a licensed contractor technician to be sent over every time you need something fixed?
"Your puny AR-15 can't do anything against a tank!"
"I'm sorry, sir, but all of our tanks are stuck in the garage. The civilian technicians keep...disappearing."
That's obviously a decision to prevent armies going rogue. If a division is self sufficient than that general can easily coup the government. No doubt that's how it was sold at first anyway.
Also, I just have to say, I despise modern leftists. They managed to take any of the positive points out, while keeping all the negatives. Antiwar? Slava Ukraini! Anti authoritarian? Nope...STATISTS.
Nothing more pathetic than a statist leftist, man.
I'd argue that all leftism is statism. They're only anarchists until they can take power. Their ostensible goals require overwhelming state power to enact upon the unwilling.
The reason why that contradiction doesn't bother them is because they're comfortable with their hypocrisy.
I (and many others, to be fair) have said before that leftists can't be hypocrites, because you need principles to be a hypocrite.
I know the general gist, but I'll check them out. I've heard good things, but haven't read them myself.