Uh-Oh Army

[Schmoe]

The thinning of the military is planned and part of a master game script. 
So is the Border Blast and every other ass backwards program failure.
Bye-Bye is getting near

I personally think it is more than just a "thinning" of the military. I think that they are re-structuring the military to support a domestic war, for the Leftist/Collectivist/Authoritarian/Communist end of the spectrum. While it may be getting smaller, it is shifting focus from foreign enemies to "domestic terrorists" as defined by the Progressives. Even more than that, in addition to restructuring the military for some egregious Posse Commitatus violations, they are also prepping the public to be more accepting of the changes coming by constantly and consistently hammering on "domestic terrorists" and attempting to link that phrase to Conservatives/republicans/Right-wingers, and letting the Leftists skate no matter what crimes they commit against the populace. Leftists cannot be, by the new definitions, "domestic terrorists", and certainly not in the same way that Right  wingers can be so defined these days.

Leftists can burn down entire neighborhoods, and have a get-out-of-jail-free card, but Right wingers have only to express an opinion publicly to get labeled as a "domestic terrorist", and hunted down like a dog.

They appear to be re-structuring the military to support that mission domestically, by changing the Left-Right balance of it and skewing it towards the Left. Some Leftisits can, and are willing to, fight. Just take a look at the Antifa phenomenon. What I believe they have not yet factored in is the coming Right wing backlash against the changes. And make no mistake, it IS coming. The Left has pushed too far, too fast, and increasing numbers of people both right and left are starting to question that push.

Now, while the Left can be induced to fight, the Right was born to it. They don't, I think, fight much at the moment because they realize what will come if they unleash themselves. They know what they are capable of, and dread it. When the gloves finally come off, all hell will break loose, and no one want to see that. However, with the Left increasingly pushing harder and accelerating their agenda, there will come a breaking point where it is inevitable. Win or lose, the Right will eventually fight back, and like any cornered animal, they will fight to win, whether they do win or not. There are more individuals on the Right with a "death before dishonor" attitude, more of them that will fight to the death and die fighting on their feet rather than continue living on their knees... and that is going to make for a very ugly situation. It always does when any given group develops a "win or die" attitude. That is where "ethnic cleansings", "genocides", and all manner of unspeakable acts springs from. The Right does not want to be pushed that far, but the Left WILL do it - they don't think that far ahead, and they don't learn from history. Together with those things, the Left has an unshakeable faith that they will somehow win, despite the lessons of history - even when they did win in any particular area, it has never lasted for even a century, anywhere. The Right has always reached a point where they've had enough of slavery, and push back... and pushed back very effectively and ugly. As ugly as necessary to regain their freedoms, whatever that took.

Younger folks who determine to defend their freedom should (and appear to be doing) stay well away from a "woke" military that does not and cannot have their best interests at heart. Additionally, they should study in-depth the works of Von Clauscwictz, "Mao on Guerrilla Warfare", Che Guevara's "Guerrilla Warfare", and things like Carlos Marighela's works. It seems counter-intuitive to study communist guerrilla warfare doctrines, but those doctrines are sound, and have led to a lot of victory in the past 150 years - it's just that after the victory, their communist doctrines could not bear the pressure of actually leading a civilian population. It always devolves into an oligarchy where the top dawgs are only looking out for Number One, and enriching themselves at the expense of the Proletariat. Every. Time.

In addition to the communist sources, there is value in studying Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" and Miyamoto Mushashi's "A Book of Five Rings".

Special Forces guerrilla training used to use those very texts, communist and non-communist alike. I don't know what they are doing now, in the "woke" era of non-governance. Once upon a time, there was value in joining the military in order to learn how to fight, and fight as part of a unit. Those times are gone. They left when the military became more of an indoctrination kindergarten than a defense force. That started, I believe, under the Obama regime, when Obama fired all those generals and replaced them with "woke" counterparts, and the military started rotting from the top down as that virus was spread by the brass.

Now, the US enters the era of asymmetrical warfare, and we are going to need bright young minds schooled in asymmetrical warfare, but untainted by woke indoctrination, to lead that charge. Asymmetrical warfare is the only way for a loose and fairly disorganized population to win against an organized, but overbearing and fairly clueless government. It uses those very "weaknesses" as it's strengths. for the guerrillas.

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I go back and forth all the time with what our military would do in the event of some sort of civil war within the United States.  Part of me thinks there's no way they fight against their own civilians.  Then I think, in this age of wokeness, especially in the military, I'm not so sure.  Combine that wokeness with your average grunts being gung-ho 18-22 year olds, and I'm just not so sure they wouldn't.