"Has Military Superiority Made America Less Safe?" Topic

"America's dominance wasn't by happenstance. It was a choice.

There's a myth Americans tell themselves: After World War II, the United States had no choice but to be the world's superpower and preeminent military force. No other countries were strong enough after years of fighting, and it was solely up to the US, by virtue of its position, to rebuild and reorder the world.

The reason that's not true, says Stephen Wertheim, author of Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of US Global Supremacy, is because the US made a conscious decision to seek military dominance before World War II ended. Such a strategy, forged in the heat of battle, would help the US thwart totalitarian regimes — namely the Soviet Union in later years — while pursuing its own interests…"

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Armand

What has made us less safe is the insistence by the industrial-Congressional complex that we involve ourselves in countless foreign interventions, mostly for the sake of increasing arms sales and lining the pockets of those same Congressional reps.

Franklin Roosevelt's concept of the US being the world's "arsenal of democracy" has been twisted and perverted by those in Congress who make money from defense lobbying. It's true that we had a history of foreign adventurism before WW2, but since WW2, there has been a push by the defense industry to continually upgrade and use our weapons regardless of the actual geopolitical need for military intervention. As a former soldier myself, I don't believe that we should be spilling precious blood in order to line the defense industry's pockets and fund their Congressional lackeys' reelection campaigns.

Here endeth the soap box sermon.

Glup!….

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Armand

Certainly the idea that the US should intervene all over the world, wherever we see a situation that does not align with our ideas if what is "right", does not make us safer, and does not make us more ethical.

Agree….

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Armand

Even a casual look into the history of the post war era, will tell you that the US made sure the British Empire wouldn't survive long term after WW2, add in the collapse of other European colonial control around the world and the time is ripe for new world superpowers to emerge (US and USSR).

LEARNING FOR WARFIGHTERS: A CONVERSATION WITH MAJOR GENERAL WILLIAM F. MULLEN III (RET.)

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