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And that is why, even before Ukraine, the US military has been obsessed with creating a drone army, airforce and navy. They've already laid the ground work by m
by webmobdev 4y ago
And that is why, even before Ukraine, the US military has been obsessed with creating a drone army, airforce and navy. They've already laid the ground work by militarising space - a planetwide network of satellites will form the future backbone of a drone military. They've experienced first-hand in Vietnam what happens when military is demoralised and of soldiers who were forced into it.
- duxup 4y agoWell considering the US hasn’t conscripted anyone I doubt “that” is the reason.
- webmobdev 4y ago"Conscription in the United States, commonly known as the draft, has been employed by the federal government of the United States in six conflicts: the American Revolutionary War, the American Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_the_United_Sta...
- cafard 4y agoConscripted anyone, that is, since about 1972. You will correct if I am wrong, but I believe that the youngest men ever drafted into the US military were born in 1953. I got my draft card--long since lost--in 1973, but never seriously supposed that I would get greetings from the president.
- vba616 4y agoInteresting in that some men in the highest echelons of power today are that old, but that's 69 which is past normal retirement age and in the next few years they will be disappearing. Sometimes I think about the time a Holocaust survivor visited my high school and what it means when they are all dead.
- duxup 4y agoYes I know.