The Navy’s marketing campaign has finally caught up with reality. With 130 bases around the world, the United States military has abandoned its mission of defending America’s borders and taken on the role as the guarantor of world security.
New recruits – you aren’t just signing up to defend America from enemies foreign and domestic, you are really signing up to join Team America: World Police.
Our military has been a “global force for good” since WWI. Why is this surprising?
It isn’t surprising. That’s why I wrote in the post that “Navy’s marketing campaign has finally caught up with reality.”
My complaint is that our military’s job is to protect and defend the United States of America, not serve as some sort of universal benefactor. Those two missions are very different.
Good point about catching up.
I understand where you are coming from, the demands of an increasingly technological cosmopolitan world blur the line between what is necessary and what is not. I think you can make compelling cases for how most of what the military does relates to defending America. (Of course, that line of reasoning can be abused, too.)