Just learned that America basically had no standing army before WW2
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Hard to funnel money to Israel when Israel didn't exist before 1945
We have to go back
And how did that work out for America?
Very well
That's because the founding fathers were against standing armies and that principle stayed for over a century in the nation more or less
the US Army was smaller and less equipped than the dutch army… those days are long gone
There were more US troops deployed around the world before the great wars than there are deployed today.
Doubt that very much
standing army = more institutions = more taxes = more bureaucracy = less freedom
The US had no need for a standing army, north there are canadians who were far fewer and had a gigantic landmass, south there are mexicans who were (and still are) a third world nation.
Even today you could argue the only military branc really indispensable to the US is the navy (which is why it has its own land and airforce subdivisions).
>The US had no need for a standing army
>the only military branc really indispensable to the US is the navy (which is why it has its own land and airforce subdivisions
By your reasoning the US does need a standing army, but in the form of expeditionary forces only.
They didn't pay income tax either. Fricking imagine that, actually heaven.
That was before the Civil War.
>16th amendment: "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."
> Ratified in 1913
>The Revenue Act of 1861, formally cited as Act of August 5, 1861, Chap. XLV, 12 Stat. 292, included the first U.S. Federal income tax statute (see Sec.49). The Act, motivated by the need to fund the Civil War,[1] imposed an income tax to be "levied, collected, and paid, upon the annual income of every person residing in the United States, whether such income is derived from any kind of property, or from any profession, trade, employment, or vocation carried on in the United States or elsewhere, or from any other source whatever [ . . . .]"[2] The tax imposed was a flat tax, with a rate of 3% on incomes above $800.[3] The Revenue Act of 1861 was signed into law by Abraham Lincoln.
congress passed "neutrally acts" that said we wouldn't get involved in foreign wars
this and a small military is why japan attacked
japan thought we'd sue for peace immediately
we didn't
The founders were right
That's just kinda bullshit though. Troops were simply federalized in times of war.
>The Regular Army of the United States succeeded the Continental Army as the country's permanent, professional land-based military force.[1] In modern times the professional core of the United States Army continues to be called the Regular Army (often abbreviated as “RA”). From the time of the American Revolution until after the Spanish–American War, state militias and volunteer regiments organized by the states (but thereafter controlled by federal authorities and federal generals in time of war) supported the smaller Regular Army of the United States. These volunteer regiments came to be called United States Volunteers (USV) in contrast to the Regular United States Army (USA). During the American Civil War, about 97 percent of the Union Army was United States Volunteers.
Seriously?