Most of us are too young to remember pre-WW2 USA, but us historians remember our military was in such shambles that they drilled back then with broom sticks rather than rifles.
Being attacked by enemies on our soil will be far more traumatic today than Pearl Harbor was then. It is a different world.
“Most of us are too young to remember pre-WW2 USA, but us historians remember our military was in such shambles that they drilled back then with broom sticks rather than rifles.”
That is true, my grandfather was in the 101st Field Artillery and at the start of WW2 they were still running around with horse drawn field guns.
Hell there’s old video out there of our “armor corps” training with plywood mock ups placed over light trucks because they didn’t have any actual tanks to train with.