No.
Because then what happens when these guys come along?
Or these?
Or these?
And what about if another country decides that they will have a military unlike everyone else? What if that nation is a little rogue?
Militaries exist for a reason.
No it would be significantly worse.
a lot of people don’t realise a lot of the back ground stuff a military does.
Just today I read a news story about how the British military is being called in to clear the roads and help those people get home or atleast somewhere safer than a motorway in a snow storm.
Army called in as Storm Emma hits UK
Thay doesn’t do it for you? Well I can provide another and a few images for you for this next one.
Two of those images are of British forces helping during major flooding that happened around the uk a couple of years back. No doubt they saved a few lives and a lot of livelyhoods. The last is of a Canadian army unit helping in a flood in Quebec, I don’t know much about this one I must admit.
and one more so I am not showing a western bias:
That’s the Chinese army helping during a horrific landslide that lead to many deaths.
but it’s not just the armies that contribute to how well we all live. Do you have a drug problem in your country? What about if you did? Because that’s what would happen in a lot of countries if you didn’t have a navy.
In 2010 on my second deployment on the type 42 destroyer HMS Gloucester we got redirected and spent days sailing to catch a boat, we found them in the Army morning somewhere in the mid Atlantic. we has been running silently for days which came as a great surprise when one of these crew men woke up opened up the boats hatch and saw a 4000 Ton warship day next to it, the man decided to wave as a friendly gesture which quickly turned in to his hands being in the air when he noticed that our upper deck weapons were stood too and our helicopter was hovering on the other side of it.
Why would we haras these innocent sailors you might be wondering… well here’s your answer
That’s drugs, millions and millions of pounds worth of the white stuff which had been attached around the yauchts rudder. These kind of operations happen all around the world, I just wanted to point this one out because I was a part of it.
still not proving that this is useful?
well.
I bet these refugees feel differently.
Now I want to discuss a few other benefits of having a professional military which are even more overlooked than the ones I have mentioned.
how about having a millions of people who are trained in first aid in your population, most armed forces atleast in the west will be trained with first aid skills, I received a weeks worth of training from CPR to dressing shrapnel wounds and would be willing to help anyone in need and I have used those skills before in just walking around the street.
Members of the military are trained to a minimal physical standard, unlike normal civilians we have to maintain that standard, this keeps us at least reasonably fit and healthy, how many people will become obese or become addicted to drugs because their job doesn’t depend on it any more?
In the RN we are all trained as firefighters, granted we aren’t experienced in it like the professional firefighters are but we do have a grasp on it.
How about unemployment? The US and China have standing armies of around 1 million people, that’s 1 million people in secure employment. Is that not enough for you, well how about all of the civilian staff that work for the military, the defence contractors who employ thousands of people to keep warships afloat, thousands more to build them and hundreds more for research, now think about all the roles civilian staff fill in the military building tanks, guns, bombs, computers, engines, clothes, satelites. A lot of those people would be unemployed and maybe even living on the streets draining resources from the other homeless. So what happens when you have less people to help vulnerable people and more vulnerable people on the streets, well instead of this:
You get this, but with those homeless people being corpses in the street:
