Weakened US Unable To Fight More Wars

[Maggie123]

Weakened US Unable To Fight More Wars

 

 

Years of war have left the US military exhausted and depleted, Gordon Duff writes.

 

Saturday, May 10th, 2014 | By Gordon Duff

 

While America talks going to war in Europe, those who follow the real condition of America’s military forces, active duty, reserve and veterans, they know it to be nothing but empty talk. Over a dozen years of war has left America’s military manpower exhausted, physically, mentally and “politically.”

 

Any new war will have to be fought without experienced non-commissioned officers or top special operations professionals.  Studies now show that they haven’t simply given up on military service, but that an entire generation of American military is dead, dying or disabled.

 

War Hoax

 

Fewer Americans are willing to believe, willing to blindly follow, willing to die for what more and more now clearly see as wars for Wall Street.

 

Perhaps the most carefully hidden impact on America’s ability to wage war is the epidemic of military/veteran suicides, numbers far more than anyone imagined.  Current suicide numbers actually exceed the total combat deaths from both the Vietnam and Korean wars.

 

Current “Epic Failure”

 

They aren’t just “quit” or retired, in truth, America has had well over 100,000 combat related deaths tied to  Desert Storm and the Global War on Terror that it has failed to report.  Some, well over 10,000, are from mysterious “Gulf War Syndrome,” reputed to be a “cocktail” of radiation and chemical exposure along with experimental vaccines.

 

There is a reason that American troop deployments into Poland and Latvia are so pitiful, despite the fact that nearly all US troops are out of the Middle East.  America’s “war games” deployment meant to intimidate Putin’s Russia accentuates a frightening fact few are aware of.  America’s trained military “inventory” is nearly totally depleted.

 

However, the majority are suicides.  In 2009, a press release from the Department of Veterans Affairs cited 30,000 “veteran suicides” among those who served post 9/11.  Within a day, that figure was never to be seen again and the machinery of disinformation went into high gear.  For the past five years there have only been reports of so many “deaths per minute” or fractional counts from active duty personnel.

 

Astounding Numbers

 

Two weeks ago, Russia Today did an analysis of census data from the year 2010.  They found that 116,000 Americans had committed suicide that year.  Of that number, 82,000 had reported whether or not they had served in the military.  Of that 82,000, 27,000 were veterans.

 

Were one to factor in the remaining 34,000 who failed to report status and factor a statistical mean, between 18,500 and 22,000 younger veterans died, all attributable to Bush 41/43 “wars of convenience.”

 

Thus, wars the public has been told account for no more than 6,000 dead actually account for 6000 direct combat deaths, over 100,000 “indirect” combat deaths and over 1 million permanent and totally disabled trained military age “veterans.”

 

What remains with this kind of manpower loss places the idea of a multi-front war, as described in America’s new Pacific Rim strategy, as pure fantasy.  Is this, perhaps, the rationale for billions spent on drones?

 

Vietnam Lesson

 

Another figure was released to the public in 2009, released and quickly “evaporated” from the public eye.  A charity raising money for veteran’s causes gleaned the real number of survivors from the Vietnam War.  Of the 2.9 million that had served in Vietnam, some only a few days or weeks, only 780,000 could be verified by both the Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs as having survived.

 

After this, figures were no longer released to the public.  However, the damage had been done and statisticians had extrapolated some interesting information from what little was leaked.

 

American combat veterans have a life expectancy of 46 years.

 

Government Complicity/Public Apathy

 

At the end of every war, the American people generally tire of hearing about it.  With Vietnam, a war the American people came to oppose en masse, blaming those who fight in wars for the failures of American society and culture became the rule.

 

“War heroes” quickly became “baby killers” or “fear crazed vets.”  Veterans were denied employment, subjected to public scorn and the hundreds of thousands suffering from Agent Orange poisoning and combat related stress were looked on as a burden to society.

 

It became a Conservative cause to label veterans as “deadbeats” and a drain on society.  The service organizations, with their tremendous political power, were still dominated by World War II veterans and saw younger vets as threatening their “ride on the gravy train.”

 

This policy has not only continued but in the divisive political climate in the US, veterans are being targeted.  Videos of police killings of veterans, typically an angry veteran in a wheel chair holding a mobile phone that police claim is “mistaken” for an assault rifle or bomb, fill YouTube.

 

Recently, a 95-year-old World War II veteran was shot by a SWAT team for attacking police with a machete.  The weapon turned out to be a “shoe horn,” and police, only 5 feet away, were unable to tell the difference.

 

Last week, a report by CNN cited the Department of Veterans Affairs, tasked with providing medical care for veterans, as having secret waiting lists.  In one hospital, Phoenix, Arizona, they found that 40 veterans had died awaiting treatment for what turned out to be easily diagnosed “life ending” conditions that could have been treated.

 

It is assumed that veterans needing expensive medical care were lied to and sent home to die. 

 

Moreover, those veterans who complain, the “whistleblowers” face another fate.  According to attorney Robert Walsh of the Veterans Pro-Bono Legal Project, as many as 200 veterans are now imprisoned illegally, having been wrongfully prosecuted after complaining of fraud in government veterans’ programs.

 

Nobody Left to Fight Wars of Aggression

 

Simply put, the idea of America reassuming the role of NATO protector is absurd.  What few European bases remain have only skeleton forces.  Barracks stand empty, bowling alleys closed, civilian contractors guarding the empty shell of what NATO had once been.

 

America has violated a “sacred trust.”  When “shock and awe” became a decade of war with no more talk of “Al Qaeda” but rather of “extremists” and “insurgents,” it became increasingly clear that America’s wars for “security” were colonial wars of conquest. 

 

No rational person could believe otherwise although years of social engineering intended to breed a generation of compliant acolytes, trained from birth to never question even the most absurd and baseless propaganda.

 

Simply put, the idea of America reassuming the role of NATO protector is absurd.  What few European bases remain have only skeleton forces.  Barracks stand empty, bowling alleys closed, civilian contractors guarding the empty shell of what NATO had once been.

 

 

 

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/05/10/weakened-us-unable-to-fight-more-wars/

 

 

 

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false."

 

William Casey, CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

 

 

 

Edited September 6, 2014 by Maggie123

[jobug38]

Sad but true.

[Maggie123]

Sad but true.

 

Thank You For Responding Jobug... This is so "Sad but true"

 

I really like "Veterans Today" they talk about what the MSM isn't willing to say.

 

They have an astute readership of veterans and a lot of bright people.

 

I like to read their comments because I usually learn as much from them as I do from the articles.

 

 

Here are a couple of responses...

1. Vetstodayfan

   May 10, 2014 - 7:47 pm

   Thank you Gordon Duff for the excellent article. I personally would be relieved if our capacity to endlessly wage war has been diminished as I am sure many are. We have done far too much damage already both to other nations and to our own nation and service men and women.

    

   All of us need to be as supportive of our vets as we can be. Also, we all need to work as hard as we can to put a stop to governance that focuses on war making rather than nation building.

    
2. Preston James, Ph.D

   May 10, 2014 - 7:20 pm

   Outstanding article which lays bare the engineered use, abuse and evil sacrifice of wonderful American Soldiers as canon fodder for the Bankster’s foreign wars of aggression and profit. But these needless combat tragedies are only half the story. The evil that has been deployed against American Soldiers since WW2 is beyond most folks ability to even imagine. But fact are facts and VT Senior Editor Gordon Duff has laid them out here.

    

   The massive rates of ptsd and suicide in American Soldiers have also been scientifically engineered by using top secret vaccine formulations which alter the mind, ultra-high tech psychotropics, and psychologically designed battlefield conditions. The reason, to abuse, weaken and destroy as many American Soldiers as possible so they can no longer defend America from the Globalist take-down.

    

   Yes, ever since the City of London lost the Revolutionary War they have been working hard to retake America and were successful covertly in 1913. Once they obtained this grip over America’s monetary production and distribution system, they deployed a plan to hijack America’s military and use it as its own private action agent and police force for its major international, interlinked corporations (big banking, big oil, big defense, big pharma, privatized Intel, etc.).

[tankdude]

A case in point

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2014/09/04/short-on-cash-the-army-national-guard-is-cutting-back-on-drilling-nationwide/

My drill has also been postponed and may be cancelled.

[Maggie123]

A case in point

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2014/09/04/short-on-cash-the-army-national-guard-is-cutting-back-on-drilling-nationwide/

My drill has also been postponed and may be cancelled.

 

I'm sorry to hear that TankDude... I imagine that has to hurt a lot of you guys financially.... and the failures sure are not for lack of your or any of our guys dedication. I know that!!!

 

I was hoping this article wouldn't offend anyone in the military and I was actually hoping for your input specifically.... I respect your opinions very much.... I know you are hyper-aware of the suicide problems because of the documentary you are working on. How is that going BTW??

[Jim1cor13]

Thank you for your input tankdude. It is a sad situation

and certainly not the fault of our men and women who

are serving this country, it is the fault of too many warhawks

who love pushing the envelope too far, and causing needless

suffering both within the military and inside their families, not

to mention ruining the lives of millions who have the misfortune

of living in one of our 'targeted' countries.

 

Funny and sad when one thinks about how twisted things are...

trillions of $$$ are given to corrupt banking institutions, corrupt

businesses, and a host of other criminal actions starting in 2008,

yet they will gut the very folks who they force their war games on.

 

Is it any wonder so many uniformed men and women are now refusing

to play this game any longer? How can they respect these kind of actions

from the very leaders that give their orders? I say God bless them, and I hope

they continue to stand up and be counted. 

 

Thanks for the post Maggie

Edited September 7, 2014 by Jim1cor13

[Bumper64]

Great post Maggie, thank you!

[tankdude]

I'm sorry to hear that TankDude... I imagine that has to hurt a lot of you guys financially.... and the failures sure are not for lack of your or any of our guys dedication. I know that!!!

 

I was hoping this article wouldn't offend anyone in the military and I was actually hoping for your input specifically.... I respect your opinions very much.... I know you are hyper-aware of the suicide problems because of the documentary you are working on. How is that going BTW??

The film was completed and released to the public on July 4th. (We thought it appropriate.)    It is called Unsung Heroes and is currently available for purchase by DVD or Digital Download (Not trying to sell it here - just sharing the information).  We hope to put it into a couple of film festivals soon. 2 movies related to it - the documentary about the making of it and "A Soldier's Letter" - a tie in short - are currenlty accepted into a film festival for Made in Montana movies.  Here's a link to the facebook page  https://www.facebook.com/unsungheroesmovie

 

As for the suicide issues - we don't seem to be having as many in Montana as other states. We have more problems with teen suicides than we do soldier/veteran suicides.  Personally, I believe that's because most of us in Montana still have that hunter/survival/rancher mentality. I know that most of the Guard soldiers I deal with on a day to day basis are as ready to go now as they were 10 years ago - and we've had a pretty fair turn over, but I bet about 50% of our Soldiers have at least 1 deployment for experience.

[Maggie123]

I am sorry about the betrayal of the military. I saw it coming in 2001 after the false flag in NYC. No one wanted to talk about it then.

Well, we know about it now.

 

We still don't want to talk about it.

 

Hello YourEmpire Thank You For The Response And Welcome To DV.

 

 

The film was completed and released to the public on July 4th. (We thought it appropriate.)    It is called Unsung Heroes and is currently available for purchase by DVD or Digital Download (Not trying to sell it here - just sharing the information).  We hope to put it into a couple of film festivals soon. 2 movies related to it - the documentary about the making of it and "A Soldier's Letter" - a tie in short - are currenlty accepted into a film festival for Made in Montana movies.  Here's a link to the facebook page  https://www.facebook.com/unsungheroesmovie

 

As for the suicide issues - we don't seem to be having as many in Montana as other states. We have more problems with teen suicides than we do soldier/veteran suicides.  Personally, I believe that's because most of us in Montana still have that hunter/survival/rancher mentality. I know that most of the Guard soldiers I deal with on a day to day basis are as ready to go now as they were 10 years ago - and we've had a pretty fair turn over, but I bet about 50% of our Soldiers have at least 1 deployment for experience.

 

Wonderful!!! It's Done And Has Been Released!!! I know that was a labor of love for all of you. Congrats!!!

It's great that the other two have already been accepted in the "Made in Montana" movies...

There is no doubt that you will get it accepted into the film festivals and I hope it spreads nationwide.

I am having some computer glitches right now... but I can't wait to reboot so I can see the Facebook page.

Sometime if it is still ok for you to do so... would you please post that trailer again?

A lot of folks that are here now may have missed it when you posted it the first time.

I thought it was really well done TankDude. Thank You.

 

I'm sure the "hunter/rancher/survival mentality" helps a lot and I know you folks from Montana certainly have that!

[dontlop]

What do ya expect with a democrat commander in chief

Same thing happened under Clinton

They systematically destroy out military

Everyone was warned before Obama was elected what he would do

He's got trillions of dollars for give away projects that are non productive and would willingly borrow trillions more to squander

Everything will go down him until Harry Reid is gone pelosi is gone Obama is gone

I don't know who anyone thinks these people represents but it's not america

[gymrat76541]

_{AND to add insult to injury - they let expire tax breaks for disabled/retired servicemembers!}

 

_{The clowns in Washington REALLY know how to show their appreciation for our service to the country!}

[tankdude]

Link to the theatrical trailer

https://www.facebook.com/unsungheroesmovie#!/video.php?v=518615181599076&set=vb.293371780790085&type=3&theater

[Maggie123]

Link to the theatrical trailer

https://www.facebook.com/unsungheroesmovie#!/video.php?v=518615181599076&set=vb.293371780790085&type=3&theater

 

EXCELLENT!!! Thank You Tankdude.

 

I think what I saw before was a trailer from "A Soldier's Letter"... which was really touching.

 

Your face book page looks great... I hope you can raise more money for the "Healing Waters" organizations.

 

That... and it is so important to raise public awareness to what some in our military go through when they come home.

 

I'm really proud of you TankDude for your involvement in such an important project.

[tankdude]

The director has reworked "A Soldier's Letter" and it is the one he submitted to the film festival in the Short Short category.

 

Here's the link to it.

 

http://youtu.be/1IVyibxqIDU?list=UUX9Z3n7WvNY3qNs-2CVWKWg

 

And who is that handsome guy who plays the father? *lol*

[Maggie123]

The director has reworked "A Soldier's Letter" and it is the one he submitted to the film festival in the Short Short category.

 

Here's the link to it.

 

http://youtu.be/1IVyibxqIDU?list=UUX9Z3n7WvNY3qNs-2CVWKWg

 

And who is that handsome guy who plays the father? *lol*

 

That's YOU!! I knew that from the first time I saw it.     Bravo Tankdude!!

 

You did such a good job of conveying the emotions... I have no words other than...

 

"absolutely heartbreaking" to even think about standing in that doorway of total devastation.

 

A Soldier's Letter 2.0 Published on Aug 27, 2014 A Soldier's Letter is a heartfelt tribute to the men and women of the military who have so selflessly served in the defense of this nation. It is dedicated to the families and the honored fallen who gave all so that we may be free. It is in honor to all of our fallen angels and specifically to my friends who have paid the ultimate sacrifice.

 

Thank You And God Bless You TankDude

[vietnam1969]

Enjoyed reading the post Maggie. Like others have said already, Sad but true.    Thanks 

[Maggie123]

Enjoyed reading the post Maggie. Like others have said already, Sad but true.    Thanks 

 

You Are So Welcome Vietnam1969... Coming From You That Means A Lot.

 

You Know I Grew Up Watching For Years The Horrors Of The Vietnam War Every Night With Walter Cronkite. I've Known The Struggles My Friends Have Gone Through Both Physically And Emotionally From That War.

 

Veterans From Vietnam Hold An Extra Special Place In My Heart...

You Most Certainly Are Right There Too My Dear.

Edited September 14, 2014 by Maggie123

[Jim1cor13]

I agree Maggie, good points. I too have seen the

affects of many Vietnam era vets, and it is sad to see,

and even worse how they have been treated even to this

day.

 

Our uniformed men and women deserve better than this, yet

they are often treated with contempt and ignored. No wonder

so many vets and even currently active duty personnel have

had enough of being treated like animals. this manner of treament

has gone on for decades, and the recent VA hospital scandal shows

it continues to this very day. Again, these VA problems have been ongoing

for many years.

Edited September 14, 2014 by Jim1cor13