1000 US Troops in Niger

Posted by $ MikeMarotta 6 years, 5 months ago to News
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Do you know how widely spread US troops are? Do you know how many are in Africa, and Central Asia; how many are in Kuwait? http://taskandpurpose.com/lindsey-gra...

On the one hand, of course, we should send troops anywhere necessary to defend America. Threats come from beyond the oceans. Yet GWAT - the Global War Against Terrorism - has already taken on the moniker "Forever War" within the US military. These expansive deployments of American soldier, sailors, airmen, marines, and coast guard have continued through three different presidential administrations. When, where, and how are the best interests of our national defense being served is a basic question for all politically engaged citizens.


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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 6 years, 4 months ago
    Reading this article made me wonder how the leadership in the military sees a GWAT. It's "forever" and it's a war against a tactic. To my non-military perspective, GWAT sounds like another way to say tasking the military to do law enforcement in cases where criminals have more power than the authorities where they're operating or where the authorities are reluctant to openly attempt to arrest and try suspects. In the 90s I remember people using the phrase "policeman of the world" to describe the global military presence and intentions. Now it seems like we literally have become policemen. It's a "new kind of war" where the enemy operates across borders sometimes with loose or no ties with one another apart from being murderous. It's like we've all but said, "Okay, the US military will provide policing in regions where law enforcement is ineffective." The crime they're supposedly fighting is politically motivated crime. Sometimes law-abiding citizens distrust police officers from their own neighborhood operating under the rules of policing. I can imagine how law-abiding citizens view foreign police officers who operate under the rules of war, killing suspects and bystanders on purpose without a trial. I really don't get the logic, but I hope military experts have thought about it, and it's not as foolish as it seems to me.
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