Posted on 08/28/2022 6:32:21 AM PDT by JonPreston
The Pentagon’s rosters are tens of thousands of troops short, as the department battles the worst recruiting crisis since the draft ended in 1973. Criminal records, drug use, and poor health bar three out of four Americans from serving without a waiver, while a booming civilian jobs market entices many of the rest. In response, the Pentagon ought to tap the largest pool of available talent: foreigners.
No self-respecting country should rely entirely on foreign troops. But enlisting some quickly fills the ranks with quality personnel. The British Army has long turned to Gurkhas, Fijians, and others from the Commonwealth, in part to make up for recruiting shortfalls. The Spanish Legion recruits from Hispanic countries and the French Foreign Legion from the world over.
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Not a good idea. We could wind up with soldiers willing to shoot citizens.
Yeah, that worked out well for the Romans.
This is what the Roman Empire did, and the outsiders (Visigoths, etc.) they recruited ended up overthrowing Rome.
That’s exactly what I was thinking.
These idiots would probably recruit “citizens” of China and Iran.
Sounds like a good policy to pursue. We are not necessarily the best and the brightest of the world.
I will note, the author is not suggesting all of our service members come from foreign sources, nor is he suggesting we recruit from hostile countries. He is also not suggesting looking at the border invaders.
He is suggesting that there is an opportunity out there.
Oh good.
An army of aliens who hate us.
A Rat party wet dream.
Words fail me. FOAD.
100% correct.
This was a point in the Declaration with King George sending Germans to fight Americans.
> The British Army has long turned to Gurkhas, Fijians, and others from the Commonwealth, in part to make up for recruiting shortfalls. <
Well, maybe if Britain (historically) didn’t insist on having forces all over the place they wouldn’t have needed all those extra soldiers.
And that’s not a knock against Britain particularly. The Romans made the same mistake. And the US is doing it now. Gotta have troops here, there, and everywhere.
Foreigners have no skin in the game. Why would they fight to their death for a country that isn’t theirs?
When you can’t get your own Citizens to serve in your military you know the country is ready to fall.
We don’t need to enlist foreigners.We need to clean out the executive branch,DOD and the General staff.
Biden is importing his army as we speak.
This is the interesting part of the article.
There are plenty of other reasons why young Americans do not wish to serve in the military, especially if one is White. You will be subjected to CRT training. Hard.
My husband gave the ASVAB test to a number of high school students a few years ago and not a single one of them made the cutoff.
I hadn't heard of the Spanish Legion, but I do know that Franco used Muslim troops (mostly from Spain's African colony) in the Spanish Civil War and there was a serious backlash from Spaniards.
They stopped tending the gardens like they were hired to do and began sleeping in their beds.
A small, but well-trained and well-armed military should be the aim.
Two-legged targets just make for bad press.
Well, it’s not like they were a great empire until their leaders became lazy and corrupt and sold out the country for their own profit, opened the borders up indiscriminately, spent way more than they were taking in which would cause inflation and THEN recruited outside their citizenry because nobody wanted to fight for their incompetent woke military leadership. I mean, nothing like that. That’s a blueprint for destroying a great country and nobody in their corrupt mind would want to do that.
The sun has long set on the British Empire and in it's place is a small, bellicose elite, still identified by their inbreed Habsburg jaws
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