The last president (what was his name again? Seems like a long time ago now) left our nation’s armed services in a real mess. The implementation of DEI programs, and the use of the armed forces as a jobs program for anyone with the neurosis du jour, all was poison to the few remaining real warfighters. When my Dad left the Army at the end of WW2, the United States military stood astride the world like a Colossus; the largest and most effective military machine ever assembled. Even in my own time, during the last years of the Cold War, we were still a power to be reckoned with; in 1990 and 1991 we conducted the largest mobilization of American forces since World War 2, moved people, weapons, the logistical train and everything else into theater in a matter of weeks, took on the largest army in the Middle East and went through them like a dose of salts.
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