Unpopular opinion… It’s looking like the new guard will be Russia, china, and the “Stans” Coalition and the military is the only way didn’t mean your military.
Yeah, Trump just spent 4 years massively rebuilding and reequipping our military. I think the OP info might be some disinformation. 'appear weak when strong' and never forget about Space Force. And there is also all of the secret stuff like shoe phones and the like that we don't even know about yet...
I think most of the posts in this thread have some good points and are correct about at least a few things. However the officer ranks are rotting and the enlisted ranks are leaving. Some of this happens every time there is a democrat CIC, and it takes a strong republican to come in and rebuild. That's just history. Unfortunately this time we had a democrat sandwich with side orders of covid and social experimentation, and it is decimating our military readiness.
Obama gutted our good officers and replaced them with woke POS. Then he destroyed morale by lowering standards, allowing openly gay and transsexual people to serve, and getting our warfighters killed by severely constraining them and ordering rules of engagement that ensured the enemy could kill at will.
Trump came in and allocated trillion$ to defense to rebuild the military, but he did not fix the people Obama broke. Now Biden is carrying on with the Obama doctrine of leading from behind, allowing drag queen parties on overseas military bases, and discharging people for being smart enough to not take the clot shot. Now the military branches can't even recruit enough to replace normal loss, let alone the stupid discharges for the shots. I haven't even mentioned the people that we have or will lose because of medical issues from that poison. Air Force may be one of the worst hit because of the pilots. That could take a generation to recover from, if we start having a lot of pilots grounded. At this point the military will probably have to implement Stop Loss in order to stop the bleeding, and that will kill off whatever morale is left.
The point is, yeah we have a lot of technology. We still have a global reach. We are no longer pulling plane parts from the plane graveyards in the desert because we don't have enough equipment. But without the people and morale to actually do the job well it doesn't matter. Even if Trump were to come back today it would take years to fix this. The lack of real leadership alone will take a long time to fix, and probably longer than even I think because if I were Trump I would go through the ranks with a chainsaw eliminating the woke. Then I would eliminate all the regulations that catered to the woke. Only then would I start rebuilding the heart of our military.
Twelve years of Trump/Desantis/Desantis (or someone similar if they exist) should be able to fix this but even they can't speed up the process of leadership experience. If they can win back the parents and the veterans things will go easier. Without the parents, the recruits won't come.
Could we win a war right now? Depends on the adversary, and the idiotic orders from the top. With Biden giving Ukraine weapons from our active duty units, and the pantywaist leadership in place I have my doubts that we could even win against The Bahamas.
Unpopular opinion… It’s looking like the new guard will be Russia, china, and the “Stans” Coalition and the military is the only way didn’t mean your military.
Yeah, Trump just spent 4 years massively rebuilding and reequipping our military. I think the OP info might be some disinformation. 'appear weak when strong' and never forget about Space Force. And there is also all of the secret stuff like shoe phones and the like that we don't even know about yet...
I think most of the posts in this thread have some good points and are correct about at least a few things. However the officer ranks are rotting and the enlisted ranks are leaving. Some of this happens every time there is a democrat CIC, and it takes a strong republican to come in and rebuild. That's just history. Unfortunately this time we had a democrat sandwich with side orders of covid and social experimentation, and it is decimating our military readiness.
Obama gutted our good officers and replaced them with woke POS. Then he destroyed morale by lowering standards, allowing openly gay and transsexual people to serve, and getting our warfighters killed by severely constraining them and ordering rules of engagement that ensured the enemy could kill at will.
Trump came in and allocated trillion$ to defense to rebuild the military, but he did not fix the people Obama broke. Now Biden is carrying on with the Obama doctrine of leading from behind, allowing drag queen parties on overseas military bases, and discharging people for being smart enough to not take the clot shot. Now the military branches can't even recruit enough to replace normal loss, let alone the stupid discharges for the shots. I haven't even mentioned the people that we have or will lose because of medical issues from that poison. Air Force may be one of the worst hit because of the pilots. That could take a generation to recover from, if we start having a lot of pilots grounded. At this point the military will probably have to implement Stop Loss in order to stop the bleeding, and that will kill off whatever morale is left.
The point is, yeah we have a lot of technology. We still have a global reach. We are no longer pulling plane parts from the plane graveyards in the desert because we don't have enough equipment. But without the people and morale to actually do the job well it doesn't matter. Even if Trump were to come back today it would take years to fix this. The lack of real leadership alone will take a long time to fix, and probably longer than even I think because if I were Trump I would go through the ranks with a chainsaw eliminating the woke. Then I would eliminate all the regulations that catered to the woke. Only then would I start rebuilding the heart of our military.
Twelve years of Trump/Desantis/Desantis (or someone similar if they exist) should be able to fix this but even they can't speed up the process of leadership experience. If they can win back the parents and the veterans things will go easier. Without the parents, the recruits won't come.
Could we win a war right now? Depends on the adversary, and the idiotic orders from the top. With Biden giving Ukraine weapons from our active duty units, and the pantywaist leadership in place I have my doubts that we could even win against The Bahamas.
Signed - a 10yr vet from 88-98.
"Appear weak when you are strong." - Sun Tzu
"Everything is an info op." - Gregg Phillips
Q 114:
"US Military = savior of mankind."
If you think those guys will have US best interest in mind, you need to think again.