No, that's not the question at all. Are you sure you are in the right thread? This thread is specifically about recruiting - it's right in the title of the thread itself:
"The US military went woke, now it can't find recruits"
And that has nothing to do with overseas deployments at all. As I pointed out previously, recruiting was very strong during most of the past two decades when we were at war overseas constantly. Also, our overseas deployments now are at their lowest level since before World War 2. This is the exact time to join if you don't want to deploy overseas. At least, in comparison with the last seven decades.
The idea that it is overseas deployments that are causing the drop in recruiting is contradicted by those realities.
I was responding to his remark (i.e., basically what are our troops defending?). He has a right to say that and I have a right to reply to him.
You sound like some type of censor trying to limit what kind of replies I can make TO SOMEONE ELSE based on your interpretation of the topic of the thread.
But with regard to deployments again I ask do you know how many foreign military bases we have around the world? Hint: no other country comes anywhere close to our vast array of facilities overseas.