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DOD 101
by Laurence M. Vance

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The purpose of the U.S. military should be to defend the United States. That’s it. Nothing more. Using the military for anything else perverts the purpose of the military. It is not the purpose of the U.S. military to spread democracy or goodwill, remove dictators, change a regime, fight communism or Islam, train foreign armies, open foreign markets, protect U.S. commercial interests, provide disaster relief, or provide humanitarian aid. The U.S. military should be engaged exclusively in defending the United States, not defending other countries, and certainly not attacking them. Now that is real DOD 101.

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I would quibble ever so slightly that providing disaster relief is a good training exercise. With a vastly reduced military necessary to defend the Constitutional US of A, they may need “stuff” to do to keep them from being “flabby”. So helping in a NOLA or a forest fire might be good “exercise”. A small quibble.

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