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Rebooting The Pentagon

13 points| whoisstan | 1 year ago |nybooks.com

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silexia|1 year ago

The founding fathers of America thought a standing army was a greater danger to it's own people than to external enemies. Something they did not anticipate was how ineffective a long term standing army becomes as technology flies far beyond and it is only discovered in the next war.