If you consider yourself 'Awakened', you should be familiar with this pending SCOTUS case.
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Or it's an unintended consequence of putting so much energy into the Invasion of Iraq and now for 20 years multiple generations of young people have seen thousands of fellow youths die for oil companies and Dick Cheney's PMC friends, all while never finding the promised and obviously false reason for the invasion in the first place... And yet the ongoing loss continues.
Yes, those things have contributed to the downturn in recruitment. But, those things you mention speak more to forces outside of the actual military itself - the complex of government and private industry that use our military to achieve political and commercial benefit. What I am talking about is the condition within our military itself. It has been a slow and deliberate destruction of the rank and file soldier which leaves us extremely vulnerable. The constant repetition of the mantra that the military is our only answer does not seriously consider the consequences of that reality. Military takeovers are never good for the people - especially when that military is compromised to the state that ours is.
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