This is the only thing our military should be used for: securing the borders of the country and protecting the country from attacks. Hopefully this administration will not use it for anything beyond that. I don’t think that’s been the mission of the US armed forces for well over a century.
Perhaps for another topic, but I've said it before and I've said it again - because of the US' natural (geographical) and national strengths, the military should refocus on these aspects...
1) Safeguarding the homeland for any/all outside threats regionally and globally
2) Ensure safe, unfettered transit for US-flagged vessel on the high seas and aircraft in international airspace
3) Protect US exoatmospheric/spaceborne assets
4) Protect US diplomatic corps and citizens abroad (i.e. rapid exfil if something happens in an unstable country)
5) Maintain a Global Strike capability that conveys the message any threat against the US can be rapidly dealt with in hours (i.e. FAFO)
6) Maintain a strategic nuclear deterrence
7) Assist in training allied nations
8) Assist US domestic priorities in times of national crisis
Focusing on homeland first hemisphere second (Monroe Doctrine).
To wit, maintain capabilities of US Navy, US Air Force/Space Force, sharpen capabilities of USMC while maintaining a limber, extremely mobile and lethal size, bolster capabilities of USCG, shapely reduce the size/scope of the US Army. You only need to maintain a large standing conventional land-based army if you are expansionist or worried about border integrity from invasion. We should
not be an empire and we have no threat from land invasion from our neighbors.
How much money does THAT save? No more expensive and overwrought land monsters like the Abrams to prove a point that will never be made again in history (i.e. large, sweeping clashes between armor), no more 800 (!!!) overseas installations that are so entrenched they have paved roads with curbs, resort-quality pools, and six different food franchises on base, etc., no more half a MILLION active-duty Army soldiers alone (not guard, not reserve...just Army).
Scared undocumented migrants began hunkering down after Donald Trump took office for the second time last week, with dozens failing to turn up to work.
www.dailymail.co.uk
But who will build our affordable tract homes and apartment mega-hives?
Get 20M people out of low-income housing, you sure get room to house ~20M low income US citizens.
