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$Bill literally cut our military to the tune of what amounted to the world's fourth biggest military (if I recall correctly).
He also crippled the Army by putting most of our combat power into the National Guard; a brilliant political move that ensured if we ever got into "the big one" we'd have automatic hometown support. There problem is that WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE GUARD SPECIAL FORCES UNITS, the Guard never deployed combat units into independent combat operations.
We spent twenty years experimenting with his fuckery and it just flat-out didn't work. You can't expect a Guard unit to master the individual, squad, platoon, company, battalion, brigade collective tasks in 39 days when active duty units rarely achieve them in 365 days, even if the Guard units are in a five year year-of-readiness posture.
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