From the Second World War right up through the Vietnam War,
mass draftee armies made it a very sensible strategy to provide benefits to
huge segments of the working class by providing them to veterans.
And since a big draftee army requires a large corps of
professionals to run it, and those were the days of the Cold War consensus that
made global struggle against communism a national crusade, it also made sense - well, to many people, apparently - to make a military career attractive for that large corps of professionals.
But the draftee armies are gone, the volunteer services are
too large for a purely defensive mission, and we have too many people
volunteering, making it far too easy for the ruling class to conduct a far too
dangerous and meddlesome foreign policy, world-wide.
Time to make cuts, significant cuts, not for current or past
service members but for new ones.
Benefits to new troops and vets will not be benefits to the masses, and they make voluntary service too attractive.
Benefits to new troops and vets will not be benefits to the masses, and they make voluntary service too attractive.
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