The U.S. Military’s Real Foe: The Tyranny of Distance
In the simplest of terms, America loses when it is fighting far from home. This tendency toward poor military performance at distance from the homeland suggests Americans should consider carefully before embracing intervention.
ROBERT STEELE: The authors are correct, but they are also ignoring what General Smedley Butler articulated long ago that I now appreciate: war is a racket. War is a profit center for the banks and a context for human trafficking, drug production, regime change, and other objectives of the Deep State, it has nothing at all to do with the public interest. Furthermore, our military is not designed to win wars and nothing has changed since we were defeated in Viet-Nam by by “bare feet & iron will.” Our military is designed to launder dirty money from trafficking in children and drugs; and to transfer wealth from the individual taxpayer to the military-industrial complex that is the bully boy for the Deep State bankers. DoD continues to ignore decision-support, strategic generalizations, whole of government strategy & operations, and multinational peace & prosperity initiatives.
