A solution here is an uneasy one. Outright removing Fort Bragg from the equation is an idealistic idea, but would be met with great resistance by not just the military but those who rely on the post for their income. Slowly scaling back the military presence and having the military pour money in to the cultivation of a more diverse job base sounds overly democratic and perhaps a little naive. The best way to know what to do in the future may be to look at what was done the last time the United States demilitarized, though it’s debatable how much there is to learn from an economic situation a century ago.
Since the United States has not effectively demilitarized since World War One, the country has been steadily raising its military spending to the point where it easily …show more content…
This means admitting mistakes and realizing its shortcomings. If actions like the Vietnam War, arming the mujahideen or even using Latin America as a backyard for the CIA cannot be seen as mistakes then nothing can be learned from them. Furthermore, if the lessons learned are myopic, believing their greatest flaw to be a lack of militarization, then the lesson learned is the wrong one.
There are a host of problems that American Militarism has brought. Large military presences remain in places like Okinawa where the United States has little tactical need to be. Sexual assault and rape is systemic in military ranks and go unreported and unpunished. Private military contractors are given free reign of war zones with minimal oversight. Recent reports of torture done by the United States show the nation to be less than scrupulous in its pursuit of justice.
These are all things that bear a closer look. This may end up forcing the United States to change its narrative as the good guys, or at the very least admitting that they are responsible for some of the current woes in the modern
Since the United States has not effectively demilitarized since World War One, the country has been steadily raising its military spending to the point where it easily …show more content…
This means admitting mistakes and realizing its shortcomings. If actions like the Vietnam War, arming the mujahideen or even using Latin America as a backyard for the CIA cannot be seen as mistakes then nothing can be learned from them. Furthermore, if the lessons learned are myopic, believing their greatest flaw to be a lack of militarization, then the lesson learned is the wrong one.
There are a host of problems that American Militarism has brought. Large military presences remain in places like Okinawa where the United States has little tactical need to be. Sexual assault and rape is systemic in military ranks and go unreported and unpunished. Private military contractors are given free reign of war zones with minimal oversight. Recent reports of torture done by the United States show the nation to be less than scrupulous in its pursuit of justice.
These are all things that bear a closer look. This may end up forcing the United States to change its narrative as the good guys, or at the very least admitting that they are responsible for some of the current woes in the modern