In my experience, most vets aren't any more useful relative to your civilian worker, which means they do not need to be specifically catered to. Relative to the general population, they are more physically fit for their age (not physically fit in general since most 40 year old vets are going to be flabby just less flabby than 40 year old civilians) but also suffer from a host of other physical disabilities like tinnitus and busted knees. Many of them also suffer from PTSD as well. And all for what? So they can brag about how they served in some base in Germany as a glorified truck driver and mechanic? Why should we cater to this specific group of truck drivers and not the millions of other truck drivers throughout the country?
Obviously if you need a construction worker, a vet is a middling pick, but if you need a guerilla, a vet is toward the top so long as they have retained their limbs and senses.
I don't see this point particularly substantiated as US military doctrine relies on air superiority and having a massive tech and logistic advantage over your opponents. How would this transfer to having the skills of waging asymmetric guerilla warfare? Vets also aren't able to slip seamlessly in crowds, partially because they have a long paper trail (deployment date, records of visits to the VA) and partially because they won't stfu about being a vet (vet licenses, Semper Fi tattoos, "is there a veteran discount"). If the guerilla can't swim among the people like fish swim among the sea like Mao said, then the guerilla is useless.
well clearly we need to start appealing to special forces war crime oper8ers from the left so they can teach us silly impractical lefties how to do guerilla warfare.
ppl have definitely tried to make tacticool communism happen but there's a very reddit tendency to insist liking the military aesthetic of any socialist state is cringe so it ends up looking like american troop with a plate carrier and nvgs but heckin based and antiauthoritarian
In my experience, most vets aren't any more useful relative to your civilian worker, which means they do not need to be specifically catered to. Relative to the general population, they are more physically fit for their age (not physically fit in general since most 40 year old vets are going to be flabby just less flabby than 40 year old civilians) but also suffer from a host of other physical disabilities like tinnitus and busted knees. Many of them also suffer from PTSD as well. And all for what? So they can brag about how they served in some base in Germany as a glorified truck driver and mechanic? Why should we cater to this specific group of truck drivers and not the millions of other truck drivers throughout the country?
Obviously if you need a construction worker, a vet is a middling pick, but if you need a guerilla, a vet is toward the top so long as they have retained their limbs and senses.
I don't see this point particularly substantiated as US military doctrine relies on air superiority and having a massive tech and logistic advantage over your opponents. How would this transfer to having the skills of waging asymmetric guerilla warfare? Vets also aren't able to slip seamlessly in crowds, partially because they have a long paper trail (deployment date, records of visits to the VA) and partially because they won't stfu about being a vet (vet licenses, Semper Fi tattoos, "is there a veteran discount"). If the guerilla can't swim among the people like fish swim among the sea like Mao said, then the guerilla is useless.
well clearly we need to start appealing to special forces war crime oper8ers from the left so they can teach us silly impractical lefties how to do guerilla warfare.
We need to radicalize CIA case officers so we know how to produce effective propaganda and coup governments.
Tacticool Communism could be an aesthetic though. Imagine it. We need to grab it before the dipshit Patsocks do.
ppl have definitely tried to make tacticool communism happen but there's a very reddit tendency to insist liking the military aesthetic of any socialist state is cringe so it ends up looking like american troop with a plate carrier and nvgs but heckin based and antiauthoritarian