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The truth behind the U.S. show of force in Asia
By Peter Apps LONDON©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Utrack
If the US Military is over stretched, it is our own doing. We are training Afghan soldiers here in the US to fight in Afghanistan. We are taking orders to build armaments for other countries and not bothering to increase our own arsenal to the capacity. Stop crying and start building.
pacint
Air Force is also short of Pilots. Wonder how much longer the US Military can spread itself across the Globe.
If I were an American I would fight for less participation globally.
Toasted Heretic
I wish for a world without the US military. That includes the reasons why they are positioned where they are, across the globe.
Unfortunately, many of the conflicts were aggravated and exacerbated by US involvement (under the radar ops included).
Unless all aggressors are reined in; the world faces and endless war, waged from continent to continent. Propelled by the self-justified righteous and fanatics.
It will not stop until mankind is depleted and the planet is ravaged.
Are all these show of force staged events really worth our mutual destruction?
lostrune2
After 9/11, Bush started the growing reliance on Special Ops, then even more their light but deadly footprint appealed to Obama who greatly reduced troops abroad, and then Trump took that to another level by unshackling White House restrictions and deploying to even more areas.
However, there's now the danger that the US military's smallest group could be overused, taking on roles that regular military used to do:
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-special-operations-20170525-story.html