The biggest crybabies about the military are always the cowards who have never served. Most have never even stepped foot on a military base, so how in the hell do they know what is happening in the military.
Well said.
You don't have to serve in the military to have an opinion in this country, or point out the obvious changes. You don't have to be a football player to opine on plays, a musician to decide if the music is acceptable or not, or a murderer to give an opinion on a murder case.
No, but you can disregard their opinions because they aren't the ones doing it. (Except for the murderer, I guess.)
Here's the thing. Most civilians have no idea what military life is like. I saw a lot of the flaws of the all volunteer system that were strained to the breaking point by the Forever War.
The worse personnel problems I see are that in fighting Bush's war, they lowered the standards to admit people like Bowe Bergdahl, Chelsea Manning and Abdul Nidal, people who never would have been enlisted or retained under normal circumstances being kept because they want to keep headcount.
We are already lagging behind China's military, you know, the biggest threat to our country today? So how much smaller of a military do you want?
Why is China a big threat?
Oh, because the Orange Man said so.
China isn't our enemy. China wants to be us.
The last time the Chinese waged a war of Aggression was 1979, when they invaded Vietnam. It was an absolute clusterfuck because their logistics sucked.
China his hemmed in by Russia in the North, India in the East and Vietnam to the South. Who are they going to invade, exactly?
Taiwan? Well, the first problem here is that they have every legal right to invade Taiwan. Taiwan is a province of China. As far as doing it, they really don't have the resources to pull it off.
It would require a D-Day style invasion. D-Day required years of preparation against an adversary that was already fighting on other fronts. after complete naval supremacy had been established.
The Chinese simply don't have that against Taiwan. They have a 2 million member military vs. Taiwan's 170,000. But the Taiwanese can call up reserves of up to 1.5 Million.
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