(July 27, 2024 at 6:09 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: It's a combat arms problem - and not new. Roughly one in five soldiers are combat arms - it can be less, usually not more. That one soldier out of five is highly likely to be white, southern, and rural. White rural southerners are more likely to be domestic terrorists or sympathizers - as that's the cultural basis or identity of domestic terrorism in the us at present.
"The Army" - broadly speaking, otoh....is the most successfully diverse institution in the us. A pioneer of the genre.
I only know what above mentioned book tells me and it's focus isn't on army so I won't dispute your take. If "The Army" really is successfully diverse then it's a good thing. Still as a Pole I wouldn't put much trust into armed forces and I certainly wouldn't trust Poland army to not fall in line with would be dictator. Obviously however this have little if anything to do with US.
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