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Originally Posted by WTE_Galway
Armies are not for defense these days, they are for bully tactics and political advantage.
Everyone does it from Russia, China, US down to North korea and Iraq ... no country is innocent.
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Haven't large standing armies always been about this? In Great Britain the last large standing army in peacetime was the one created by Cromwell during the civil war and after his death we had a helluva time trying to reduce it's powers and get rid of it. We took these lessons to heart - as did the people who would go on to write the US constitution. Until the Cold War large standing armies were associated with tyrannical regimes.