The US defence secretary’s decision to review military standards on combat and physical fitness and appearance opens a Pandora’s box of widely differing rules among the services.
The US defence secretary’s decision to review military standards on combat and physical fitness and appearance opens a Pandora’s box of widely differing rules among the services.
How much you want to bet we’re going to start having military parades to “show off our strength”.
The US doesn’t do military parades. George Orwell said it best in 1941, “Why is the goose-step not used in England? There are, heaven knows, plenty of army officers who would be only too glad to introduce some such thing. It is not used because the people in the street would laugh. Beyond a certain point, military display is only possible in countries where the common people dare not laugh at the army.”
Trump specifically asked for this in his first term. As I recall, his advisors recommended against it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_2018_Washington_Veterans_Day_Parade