Combat Veterans are No Threat to U.s. Security
by Some have wondered if combat veterans are a threat to U.S. security. The answer briefly, is no.
Recent scientific research has shown that modern mankind ‘are wimps’ compared with their ancestors. The physical condition of people of ages long past was such that very easily they might run faster and lift more than even the best of moderns. Human existence today has reduced itself increasingly to those of interiors versus those of exteriors. The people of interiors control the economy, accumulate/concentrate wealth and destroy the environment to create comfortable products for consumption. The people of the exteriors are the homeless, the disenfranchised, the diseased, the starving, those with heat exhaustion and frostbite and so forth…the poor. Combat veterans are an interstitial group preponderantly advancing the interests of particular groups of each side. Seldom to combat veterans orchestrate the violence except perhaps when agents of the poor.
The national security of any nation tends to stablish around combat at some point. In U.S. history combat veterans formed the nation’s leadership until quite recently, when non-combat veteran Presidents led the nation into vast public debt, and decline in scientific, ecological and technological leadership. Perhaps the unlikable combat veteran Al Gore would have been a better choice for President in 2000 than the non-combat veteran George W. Bush.
We may consider the skill at military violence as something non-partisan for U.S. veterans except that it tends to be unified in values in support of democracy and liberty for individuals as well as the defense of the nation physically. If some minorities or rare per cent can enact violence that is offset by the majority in opposition to violent political dissent and whom are willing to reinforce its suppression. With such pervasive violence in the world today, and with such vast civilian production of weapons of mass destruction such as in the bio-technology sector or in global microwave beams to cook societies to death it is helpful to have a core of non-cowards capable of reacting adversely to significant emerging threats.
Combat veterans have seen the elephant of applied foreign policy and can foreign judgments about what it means. They are thus able to comprehend the effect upon the populace of nations with which the United States has been in conflict, and comprehend better how to avoid bad effects as well as to end a conflict decisively. In circumstances such as that of a protracted combat criterion in Afghanistan, perhaps the military should simply be given a budget to operate on and then spend it as they like in the most effective way. In former times general military leadership was integrated under s single field marshal who would allocate his own resources ontologically. Civilian oversight of military tactics should not extend into the actual control of field deployments or the skill level is reduced overall. If a General cannot attain success in a year or two then another would be elevated to replace him. The present Afghan mission should have a budget annually that is less than thirty times that spent of the moon colony program, or the national priorities are plainly bent.
Combat veterans of course formed the backbone of the greatest generation. They are not a lot of domesticated chimps currying their fur with the assurance of pleasure and hedonist euphoria. That being said are they a threat to corruption? Perhaps combat veterans might have more willingness to dedicate their lives to a cause that would perhaps cost them their life. Some things are worth fighting for, with the proviso that it is important to win rather than just enact a symbolic course more amusing to the powerful and evil that is ineffective at defeating the oppressor.
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