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To: Snowshoe who wrote (198148)	4/13/2023 9:45:53 AM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 219973

Wow.. Cochrane district is a nice 5 day weekend on the Harley :0)

To: Snowshoe who wrote (198148)	4/13/2023 9:15:59 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 219973

peace is good, I am guessing, only guessing

To: Snowshoe who wrote (198148)	4/14/2023 4:34:00 AM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 219973

apparently conscription a an imperative zerohedge.com US Military Would Need Conscription To Fight China: Expert Authored by Andrew Thornebrooke via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A U.S. Marine Corps Osprey comes in to land next to soldiers from Japan's 1st Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade during an exercise with the U.S. 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit in Gotemba, Japan, on March 15, 2022. (Carl Court/Getty Images) The U.S. military could not achieve victory in a war with China using its current, all-volunteer force, according to one expert. The United States will thus need to radically transform its force structure to better contend with the emerging threat environment, up to and including by reinstating conscription, said Jonathan Askonas, an assistant professor of Politics at Catholic University of America. “This is a five-alarm fire,” Askonas said during an April 11 discussion with the Hudson Institute think tank. “We’re facing global threats and we have a force structure which we know will not work against those threats. “We basically can’t fight a war larger than Iraq with the all-volunteer force.” The all-volunteer force has been a staple of U.S. military organization since 1973, when the draft was terminated along with the United States’ direct involvement in the Vietnam War. Unfortunately, Askonas said, the all-volunteer force was proving incapable of generating the number of service members required for a war between great powers, and its burdensome logistical processes were likely to be ineffective in either a conflict with China in the Indo-Pacific theater or supporting European powers against Russia. “We have a Goldilocks problem,” Askonas said. “Our army is too small as constituted to actually prosecute a war with these countries, but it’s large enough that it’s sucking a lot of resources away.” “We have to be ruthless. We need to adapt our force structure not to hypothetical threats or in some universal Swiss army knife approach, but to the actual threats that we face.” To that end, Askonas suggested that the military should re-adopt a “cadre” system for deploying the military, not dissimilar to that used in World War II. Under such a system, the number of resource-heavy full time service members would be decreased in peacetime in favor of investing in expensive, slow-to-build items like warships. Read more here...

To: Snowshoe who wrote (198148)	4/14/2023 5:17:14 AM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 219973

in the good old days, team china had a system whereby farmers farm during farming season, and when not, accompany the troops to do what troops do each family has responsibility to contribute one family member to do troop tasks, and when doing so, must provide for own weapon, armour, and such according to own ability, and if truly able, a horse mulan en.wikipedia.org , the girl(s) who cross-dressed to substitute for elderly father did so, at least once, if not many times over all over the place, and here be one tomb commemorating such ... all seems in good order, and readying for the arrival of neocons