Our military is the Left’s primary guarantee they can rail against America without fear of retribution.
This from americanthinker.com.
We have enemies (think: China) that want us defanged so that American leadership around the world becomes nothing more than a footnote in history.
Think of an America without a strong military to guarantee our place in the world while also guaranteeing the rights of snowflakes.
The result: The snowflakes would be among the first to be stood up against a wall and shot for lack of a useful purpose to the invading power.
Thank a soldier every time you meet one.
Since the U.S. system of education stopped teaching civics, real American history, and respect for God, country, and family our younger generations lack the basic social knowledge and skills to appreciate and propagate the certain exceptionalism of America.
Many progressives have developed a snowflake mentality that believes it’s not the world that is a threat to them, but America itself.
This educational failure has given rise to many inexplicable thought processes that range from tearing historic statues down to the number of people who think capitalism kills more people than communism.
A recent Annenberg Civics Knowledge Survey found that less than half of U.S. adults can name the three branches of government.
The following facts are important to understand:
- There are about 2.4 million active and reserve members of the U.S. armed forces.
- Add about another 450,000 in various national guards, and we have about 2,850,000 uniformed members of the military.
- Our land warfare forces are numerically not up to the task of taking and holding a lot of real estate any longer. Our Army is committed to an entirely different Order of Battle than it was 40 years ago, due to the technical nature of how we fight conflicts today.
This from one commenter, Amit M.:
As an example, in an armored battalion of 35 tanks and a support mobile company, the number of fighters is about 150, while the total body count is around 400-500.
The ‘extras’ are not redundant in any sense. They include logistics, communications, liaison, medics, field maintenance, ammunition, and sundry stuff.
So, when you look at the net ratio between actual fighting soldiers and the rest of the army, it spikes between 7:1 to 12:1.
There is less than 80,000 MOS-coded active-duty infantry within both the Marines and Army today. U.S. Marine Corps have 23,376 infantry in 24 Marine infantry battalions, and in the Army, there are 54,983 infantry in 79 Army infantry battalions (of all six types).
During Operation Desert Storm, over 425,000 total soldiers were amassed from both our active duty and reserves, but actual combat coded (tip of the spear) personnel probably amounted to fewer than 100,000 actual warfighters.
“[The reality is] we would be unable to duplicate those numbers today.”
Why is all this important to all of us?
U.S. leadership refuses to believe what our enemies say and what they mean.
For example:
People’s Republic of China Pres. Xi Jinping announced in October 2018 that he had begun a new 30 Years War with the U.S., [as reported in Unconventional War by Allan J. Feifer].
“Why do we ignore his pronouncements, then and now?”
A revealing recent warning by Admiral Charles Richardson, United States Strategic Command (Stratcom), during the Naval Submarine League’s 2022 Annual Symposium:
The war in Ukraine isn’t the largest conflict that the U.S. will see; we must be prepared for a global conflict involving China.
This Ukraine crisis that we’re in right now, this is just the warm-up.
“The big one is coming.”
If U.S. leadership ignores what Admiral Richardson said, the next war will find us unprepared.
In summation, three huge takeaways briefly stated here:
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The state of American forces, the size of our Army and Navy, gaps in our command, control, and communications, proliferation of asymmetric weapons and tactics all coupled with America’s absolute fear of blood will be used against us.
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A general lack of patriotism and a belief in isolationism, especially by our youth, is now firmly embedded throughout our country. An ascendant China is inevitable and is preparing the ground for war and the defeat of the West. China seems so often to be something they are not; free, happy, and fair. The media and government only rarely sound the alarm over the Uighurs, Hong Kong, or Taiwan. Few Americans have the kind of memory that can equate Xi with Dictators the likes of Hitler, Putin, or Mao. Nevertheless, that’s who he is.
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We are no longer as strong in mind, body, and spirit, or in possession of strong core beliefs. Read this fact and think about it: Only 23% of men and women who apply to join the military meet the standards to enlist. 77% are rejected because of health reasons, drug use, criminality, or mental defect. This is America today. And these were the civilians who wanted to join! Because of these weaknesses, we no longer meet our recruiting goals.
Wake up America!
Not ‘taking care of business for more than a generation has gotten us to where we are today.
There is only the temporary fantasy of what we would like things to be, rather than the reality of what is true.
Evil will eventually find us. Some know this and are preparing for it. Too many of us have our blinders on.
It’s not too late to face reality and come together as a unified whole.
– First, we must come together against common threats.
– Second, we must renounce Wokeism and root out everyone who pushes that agenda.
Our beloved country will not survive otherwise.
God speed to Conservatism.
And May God Bless America!
