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if we minded our own business those needs would not matter- there would be no American casualties if the US actually cared about the Military personnel and didn't serve the MIC.Why You Should Stay the Hell Away From the American Military
Some advice: Don’t get shot in the face. I don’t care what your friends tell you, it isn’t a good idea. Further, avoid corneal transplants if you can. If you find a coupon for one, in a box of Cracker Jacks maybe, toss it. Transplants are miserable things. Unless you really need one. What am I talking about? Eyes, and losing them, and getting them back. On this, I am an accidental authority.
Long long ago, in a far galaxy, the United States was bringing democracy to Viet Nam, which had barely heard of it and didn’t want it anyway. As an expression of their desire to be left alone, the locals spent several years shooting Americans. I was one of them: a young dumb Marine with little idea either where I was or why. But that was common in those days.
How would our military have benefited from the exponential advancements in weaponry, combat gear, armor, battlefield medicine, and communications gear if we hadn't been involved in some skirmish or another? Were it not for those, we would still be wearing ineffective M1 steel pot helmets and crappy Vietnam-era flak jackets, which did virtually nothing to stop a bullet. We would still be using M-16A1 rifles that jammed every few bursts and needed constant cleaning.
We lost 68,000 men and women during the short period of time there were combat troops in Vietnam. The War on Terror has been going on since 2001, and there have only been a fraction of the casualties.
So what ultimately happens when we practice isolationism while Russia and China continue to develop their military capabilities? You don't develop more advanced weapons systems, battlefield medicine, armor, etc. and just hope and pray they work when the time comes.
We now have the most advanced and strongest military in the world. The military technology created just within the last 15 years is far more advanced than anyone could have imagined in late 60's. The veteran who wrote that piece wouldn't have suffered his eye damage, had he had modern ballistic-protective goggles like the standard issue given to today's soldiers. It took war to develop those. Many of those advances in technology have also been utilized in the civilian world too.
Trade with all is hardly isolationist