Legitimate role of the military is to win defensive wars. In America that translates to no need for draft. Everything else is statist fluff, which causes your typing fatigue.
"Legitimate role of the military is to win defensive wars. In America that translates to no need for draft."
An equally important role is to deter attack by looking as though you can defeat potential attackers.
Si vis pacem, para bellum. It's natural law; make your peace with it.
Further, it it quite legitimate for one country to go to the aid of another, when that country is attacked or imminently threatened.
"Everything else is statist fluff"
Even Hayek concedes that the state has legitimate roles. Denying that moves past libertarianism to anarchism.
"which causes your typing fatigue."
It had a lot more to do with it being almost 3 a.m. in Yokohama.