Because of the hard left, violence is becoming endemic to our political process. Innocent rally goers were attacked last week in Washington, D.C. Antifa and Black Lives Matter thugs have murdered and assaulted their way across America. Businesses have been burned down and looted. Police officers, ordered by corrupt and Marxist elected officials, have stood down helplessly. This may soon get out of hand.
If it does get sporty in the 1861 sense of the word, where would the US military jump? Now, no sane person wants this to happen. But they also didn’t want it to happen in England in 1642 or in Mexico in 1910. But it did. It happened in those places and could happen here because, as we see right now in this country, two opposing sides are too far apart for compromise. Based on out west coast, the hard left has separated themselves from the basic American values of economic and personal freedom. They have instead embraced a racist Marxism that pits citizen against citizen on the basis of heritage and pigment. This divided national house may only stand so long.
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If push comes to shove and it remains merely a civilian and militia show, then it will be over very soon with an American victory over the hard left. But, if the incoming Biden administration tries a move, like gun confiscation, so hard left the states balk, then the military may be called out to enforce federal edicts. The question is: would It?
Military members take an oath to defend the Constitution against enemies foreign and domestic. Could a division commander or service chief of staff deem a federal law unconstitutional and refuse to back it up? In this analyst’s opinion, yes.
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It may come down to unit by unit or branch by branch. As such, there are different political and cultural values within the separate branches that would possibly determine their decisions.
Taking a page from Morris Janowitz, the cultural values of the different branches, which would drive political decisions, would make the sides likely fall this way: The Army and the Marines Corp would refuse an unconstitutional order. The Navy, Air Force, and the Coast Guard would back the elected government no matter what.
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The ground services, the Army and Corps, tend to breed a tougher and thus more conservative animal, as the mission calls for it. There are exceptions, like the special operations community, which would overwhelmingly side with the Constitution and against an overreaching federal government. The other services, more technical in nature, recruit different people and thus have different cultures. They are more conformist and would be indifferent to the siren call of an insurrection. Thus, if engaged, the tactical and strategic resources of the various services would obviously determine the outcome of any domestic conflict. How? That’s the subject of another article.
This piece was written by David Kamioner on November 17, 2020. It originally appeared in SteveGruber.com and is used by permission.
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I believe we need a U.S. military reset of 5 years as a minimum. Their first nod would be to remove Congress & our Supreme Court Justices for within our government. Then we should go through every law on the books removing the ones that infringe on any of our “Creator endowed Rights” as U.S. citizens. Also during this time all foreign nationals should be removed from within our borders.
I believe should a citizen revolt become a necessity due to rioters & anarchist the Democratic Communist Party would call on the U.N. to send in peacekeepers. Which once they make that decision our U.S. military would step in. Ending the Democratic Communist Party & ending a foreign force from entering our sovereign borders.
The left seems to own our military. Now Obama saying calling seal team to oust President Trump. Some how military brass forgets who has their backs. Not Obama. Yet for some reason the left keeps telling us they will oust our President when democrats say so. Does anyone else find this disturbing at all. Don’t get me wrong I love and support our military and police. But seems to me they follow democrats orders, why?