"I suppose a nation needs a military, for all it's faults, the risks of NOT having a military is greater than the risk of having one. However, that leads to people actually wanting to use it, whether it should be used or not. The military is not to blame for the messes of the past 2-3 generations; the political leadership gets us into those, then decides to use the military for what cannot yield to a military solution (or at least not a purely military solution)." --
warriorsavant 2021-11-12