> "We're looking at a country which by a lot of metrics -- physical ability, cognitive ability -- all those numbers are going in the wrong direction." #GilBarndollar.. at the Center for the Study of Statesmanship
> While the Army's recruiting totals look solid on paper, a high dropout rate raises serious doubts about whether those numbers are an accurate portrayal of how well the service is [wo]manned.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/03/07/army-losing-nearly-one-quarter-of-soldiers-first-2-years-of-enlistment.html
#uspol #USAMilitary #USAMilitaryRecruitment #MilitaryRecruitment

What a shame. #house #usamilitary #democrats

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:kzdwyk6siceroge43wywnak6/post/3ld2uzjczwc2k

USA military and laws for a draft...

> A federal district court has ruled that male-only draft registration is unconstitutional. Contrary to popular myth a draft does not decrease the chances or duration or extent of wars.

https://worldbeyondwar.org/repeal/
#WorldBeyondWar #USAdraft #SelectiveService #USAmilitary

> In every poll since the Viet Nam war, reinstatement of the draft is overwhelmingly opposed by the general public, and even more so by veterans...
> Despite a 22% increase in sexual assault reports since 2015, convictions have plummeted by almost 60% in the same timeframe.

https://worldbeyondwar.org/14-points-against-draft-registration/
#WorldBeyondWar #USAdraft #USAmilitary #MilitaryDraft #SexualAssault #USAveterans #VietnamWar #InvasionOfVietnam

.> the Pentagon is the single largest consumer of energy in the United States— and probably in the world.4 The US military maintains vast fleets of vehicles, ships, and aircraft, and many of these consume huge amounts of fossil fuels. A non- nuclear aircraft carrier consumes 5,621 gallons of fuel per hour; in other words, these vessels burn up as much fuel in one day as a small midwestern town might use in a year. But a single F- 16 aircraft consumes a third as much fuel in one hour of ordinary operations— around 1,700 gallons. If the plane’s afterburners are engaged, it consumes two and a half times as much fuel per hour as an aircraft carrier— 14,400 gallons.

All I do I do for the safety other my country 💯
#USAmilitary

"We don't think of Japan as an ATM", "Japan is not just some ATM." are not direct #Bushism

> ..the denial by a "Senior White House official" that the US president would ever think of Japan as "just some ATM machine" was so bizarre as to suggest that perhaps that might be precisely how he saw it.

https://apjjf.org/-Gavan-McCormack/2111/article.html
#GavanMcCormack #Japan #ATM #JapanAsATM for #USAMilitary
> #TakaoHishinuma, #EijiHirose, "US official says Japan 'not just some ATM'," #DailyYomiuri Online, 10 October 2003.

The Pentagon: A Global Oil-Protection Service

The most significant expression of this trend has been the transformation of the U.S. military into a global oil-protection service whose primary function is the guarding of overseas energy supplies as well as their global delivery systems (pipelines, tanker ships, and supply routes). This overarching mission was first articulated by President Jimmy Carter in January 1980, when he described the oil flow from the Persian Gulf as a “vital interest” of the United States, and affirmed that this country would employ “any means necessary, including military force” to overcome an attempt by a hostile power to block that flow.

When President Carter issued this edict, quickly dubbed the Carter Doctrine, the United States did not actually possess any forces capable of performing this role in the Gulf. To fill this gap, Carter created a new entity, the Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force (RDJTF), an ad hoc assortment of U.S-based forces designated for possible employment in the Middle East. In 1983, President Reagan transformed the RDJTF into the Central Command (Centcom), the name it bears today. Centcom exercises command authority over all U.S. combat forces deployed in the greater Persian Gulf area including Afghanistan and the Horn of Africa.

> "#Trump may now have the war with #Iran he so obviously craves and that #Israel and #SaudiArabia want. Any #Iranian retaliation will be branded ‘#terrorism’ by the administration and its #mediaSycophants.

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/01/04/soleimanis-assassination-mafia-would-have-been-proud

#msm #corporateMedia #sycophants #droneAttack #USAmilitary #murder #militarism #preemptiveStrike #usa #usaTerrorists #usaMurderers #regimeChangeWars #oilWars #boeing #lockheedMartin #raytheon