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>It's scary that civil society understands so little of the military now that it's so small and professional. I'd say overall it's a good thing. It's a very go
by aphextron 9y ago
>It's scary that civil society understands so little of the military now that it's so small and professional.
I'd say overall it's a good thing. It's a very good thing that 99% of people will never be able to remotely comprehend what we went through.
- guelo 9y agoWhen a lot of more the population served in Vietnam the country turned against the war. Nowadays nobody seems to care that America's longest war continues on.
- adventured 9y agoThat's because they're not even remotely comparable things, as you note. Afghanistan is a security operation, not a traditional war. There's no draft, thousands of US soldiers aren't dying in Afghanistan. Even the cost is a modest fraction of the total US military budget. There were 15 US casualties in Afghanistan in 2017, and 14 in 2016. That's not a war. That's a security operation.
- chrisseaton 9y ago> There were 15 US casualties in Afghanistan in 2017, and 14 in 2016. There were 15 US fatalities, not casualties. I'm sure there were many more casualties - many of them life changing injuries.