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U.S. Army cuts force size amid unprecedented battle for recruits
- sn0w_crash 4y agoPerhaps not the best time to be discharging unvaccinated troops?
- MuchoMaas 4y agoOn the upside, the force they're left with is much more heavily skewed to order followers and regime loyalists.
- LinuxBender 4y agoI get what you are saying but even in the military this is not always a good thing. I had to fight/escalate many times when people gave very poorly thought through orders. They don't like my kind, but if none of us are left to rock the boat I could foresee monumentally dumb things occurring that could harm many military and civilian alike and waste vast amounts of taxpayer money.
- MuchoMaas 4y agoI used the term "they" very carefully. It's only an "upside" to a very select group of people.
- codefreeordie 4y agoYes, it's just that optimizing the force for a domestic purpose does somewhat reduce the recruiting pool.
- codefreeordie 4y agoThat depends entirely upon one's goals. It was, for example, a relatively effective means of applying a partisan ideological screen to the force without having to admit to having applied a partisan ideological screen. The screen will be very incomplete, but adequate for materially changing the partisan makeup of the overall force.
- tomatotomato37 4y agoGiven the recent European land war and the general performance of one of our main military rivals in said war I think it's possible this was actually planned for awhile and the recruit problem is just a convenient excuse