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> The US military has only been around for 250 years And a permanent, standing, large, and fairly dysfunctional (look at descriptions of military leadership an
by karatestomp 6y ago
> The US military has only been around for 250 years
And a permanent, standing, large, and fairly dysfunctional (look at descriptions of military leadership and its civilian oversight in WWII and earlier, then look at same in Vietnam, then look at the linked Afghanistan Papers documents in this thread re: same in Iraq and Afghanistan) US military is even newer, only 80ish years. Even more recent if you consider its modern form to have taken shape only after the Vietnam draft ended.