chapotraphouse

Obviously not top brass (although people with knowledge of military history and tactics are always useful). But knowing how to organize a division, understand military logistics, that type of concern has historically been very useful in any armed struggle.

All the US military knows how to do is blow their money in the most inefficient way imaginable and lose to insurgents. People here grossly underestimate how:

1. Most people in the military work in logistics and lack real combat experience, in which case they functionally bring nothing to the table that a generic worker couldn't bring as well. I met so many vets whose entire years of service boils down to "I moved boxes from point A to point B" or "I drove and repaired trucks" or "I sat on a desk and read emails." You know, like any other generic job.

2. The people who actually have combat experience are either serial killers who get off on the warcrimes they've committed, complete drones who do as they're told, or people with horrible PTSD who need our help more than we need theirs. In the way, this makes sense. If you're send out to commit warcrimes, the serial killers and drones will leave relatively unscathed and sleep like a baby while normal people will be haunted by what they've witnessed and committed for the rest of their days.

Conscripts vs volunteers. Self-selects for ideology making it less of a base for proletarian revolution

You're going to encounter sparingly few situations where martial arts are the difference maker, especially compared to apologizing when it's not your fault or removing yourself from the situation. Your problems don't go away. But it's an insurance policy - if shit hits the fan I cling to my BJJ[1]. If you encounter someone who has a personal problem with you and you're fortunate enough sweep them from bop to toddom because they have no balance (nobody ever does) you can run away. You go from hopeless where you cannot conceive of getting them to fuck off to a little hope in knowing what it would look like to assert your will. The next day and every day for the next month you'd never skip a class. In my opinion in minecraft in a not legal advice sort of way - but it is financial advice.

[1] I have a fun story where punches weren't working in a dream so I went for a wrestling take down and started grappling which worked

Hell, it's more moral to sell drugs like crack and heroin than it is to join an imperialist military. At least everyone involved is there because they want to be.

Obviously, you shouldn't sell drugs because you're taking advantage of addiction. You're also complicit in whatever activities your criminal organization takes part in, whether that's contract killing or pimping. That's how low the bar is in comparison to being a troop. But no one who's in the mafia is under any illusions about what it is they do. Trying to convince Americans "Hey, maybe your friends deserved to get shot by the Vietcong," is a fool's errand.

Hmm sounds like you’re a superhuman with obscene standards we can’t possibly use to judge the poor widdle imperialism facilitators

Never discuss "the middle class". It's not materialist and whatever discussion centers upon it will lead nowhere useful.