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Offline rangerrebew

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Military Reform: Reversing the Decline
« on: September 05, 2024, 12:55:17 pm »
Military Reform: Reversing the Decline
By Gary Anderson
September 05, 2024
U.S. Marine Corps

Since 2020, the nation's military has undergone one of the most humiliating periods in its history. The disgraceful rout at Hamid Karzai International airport during the Afghanistan withdrawal. Soon after, the decrepit state of naval maintenance and shipbuilding is the worst since the Navy’s founding.

Further compounding the humiliation, the Marine Corps has been castrated into a regional force whose legendary force in readiness is being replaced by a combination of colonial light infantry and coastal defense artillery.


The tragic decline of our nation’s armed forces coincides with the greatest recruiting crisis that our Army has suffered since the activation of the all-volunteer force in the 1970s.

We are now experiencing the greatest decline in American combat power since the end of World War II. America's military is becoming a hollow force not seen since the Carter years.

https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2024/09/05/military_reform_reversing_the_decline_1056296.html
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Re: Military Reform: Reversing the Decline
« Reply #1 on: September 05, 2024, 12:56:40 pm »
When an ex-general is one of those leading the decline, there isn't much hope for a reversal. **nononono*
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The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address

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Re: Military Reform: Reversing the Decline
« Reply #2 on: September 05, 2024, 01:21:00 pm »
Policing the world is bankrupting America.  Frig the MiddleEast.  Let India and China fight over it.
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