Assume the U..S. decided it needed to get ready for a major war what would American mobilization look like? Assume that a draft is off the table of course but beyond that what would it look like for the U.S. to be mobilized? What reserve and guard units would be called up and in what order? How would they be equipped? Where would they be sent once called up? Just curious.
Both Democrats and Republicans agree now that the only reason for a military to exist in the U.S. is to kill uppity proles, so mobilization no longer requires a Navy or more than a few hundred thousand soldiers, mostly trannies and dykes.
Extremely stupid post. What makes you think either party views the proper use of the U.S. military is to kill our own citizens? Stupid beyond belief.
Any mobilization plan would be entirely dependent on the nature of the threat to be addressed. There isn't a "one size fits all" answer.
Actually that is exactly the GOP's belief, and President Hoover used them for exactly that, so did several previous Presidents, especially when big business found they could bribe Congress a lot cheaper than their traditional use of private armies to mow down uppity proles. Too bad you choose to ignore real history. George Washington was, first Jefferson came along and did the same, and so on right up to the present day.
You don't know I suppose that Herbert Hoover had little or nothing to do with the rousting of the so called "Bonus Army".
No draft, no mobilization. Nobody trusts the government, the current Commander in Chief is a senile fool, the chairman of the joint chiefs is possibly a traitor who colludes with the Chinese, much of the top leadership are there because they are woke not because they are skilled in martial arts, congress is full of cheaters and spies. Why would people join a military run by those people?
Because war can make heroes even out of fools and simpletons. And even traitors. Besides which no one would have to "join" the military even in a nationwide mobilization. . They're already there. Reservists right now number in the hundreds of thousands
When Jay Gould said " I can hire half the working class to kill the other half", he was speaking from personal experience; the armed forces will do whatever they're told to do by those who sign their paychecks. The myth that they would never turn on the American public is a laughable myth that has been proven false over and over and over again.
I think the answer is the recent history; the mobilization for 9/11, Afghanistan, and then Iraq. Of course I doubt we could field a military that size now. I imagine you would have to go to a draft. My reserve unit was called up after 9/11. First, it mobilized a certain segment of technical specialists, about a dozen, who went to a national level assignment. Then in November we were told that we we would be mobilized early December. At that point, the rest of the unit was mobilized...Stayed that way for 22 months.
~ Yes I remember in history class reading about our Presidents mentioning a American mobilization military of "mostly trannies and dykes " ...
Pretty much like WWII. One of the biggest reasons that Congress and the President resist "declarations of war" is that it really does give a great deal of power to the government. Including allowing it to put in place things like rationing, mandating price and wage freezes, even to taking over large segments of the industry as needed to produce war materials. So to see what it would be like, look no farther than 1941.
You really think our mobilization plans are the same as EIGHTY ONE years ago!!!!??? You know we even have planes without propellers now?
Then maybe you need to realize what you said. Our military mobilizes all the time. I think that you simply do not know what you are trying to ask for. All "mobilization" is is preparing the military to move where needed. War is not needed for that.
~ Exactly correct. At present the USA is moving towards a WOKE military. The "mobilization" would likely be a mass exodus from the country ... ~ No it can't ... and never has. Forrest Gump does not count . Eighty-one years ago the USA could tell the difference between a male a and female.
I believe it's the army corps of engineers who are the ones responsible for constructing the dykes. Lol
Actually, here is the funniest thing. It did, and it does count. Because in many ways that really happened during Vietnam. Back in 1966, SecDef Robert McNamara and President Johnson came up with an idea as part of the "War on Poverty". That the military can give a lot of people important job training and skills, and a lot of the lowest income were not able to pass the entry requirements. Therefore, a lot of them were waived, allowing people who mentally were not normally qualified to enlist. It was officially called "Project 100,000", but was often called things like "McNamara's Folly", "MacNamara's Misfits", and in the Marines it was commonly known as "McNamara's Moron Corps". And before the program was cancelled, over 350,000 were accepted that normally would not have been able to join the military. And to give an idea how low, before the ASVAB they used the AFQT, for "Armed Forces Qualification Test". Scored from 1 to 99, the lowest combined score allowed was 31 for the Army (up to 36 for the Air Force). Project 100,000 lowered it down to 10 for all services.
