That’s quite a label for a military that hasn’t won a victory since WWII and which has managed to throw trillions of dollars down the drain. From William Astore at tomdispatch.com:
The Perpetual Wars You Aren’t Supposed to Notice
In his message to the troops prior to the July 4th weekend, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin offered high praise indeed. “We have the greatest fighting force in human history,” he tweeted, connecting that claim to the U.S. having patriots of all colors, creeds, and backgrounds “who bravely volunteer to defend our country and our values.”
As a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel from a working-class background who volunteered to serve more than four decades ago, who am I to argue with Austin? Shouldn’t I just bask in the glow of his praise for today’s troops, reflecting on my own honorable service near the end of what now must be thought of as the First Cold War?
Yet I confess to having doubts. I’ve heard it all before. The hype. The hyperbole. I still remember how, soon after the 9/11 attacks, President George W. Bush boasted that this country had “the greatest force for human liberation the world has ever known.” I also remember how, in a pep talk given to U.S. troops in Afghanistan in 2010, President Barack Obama declared them “the finest fighting force that the world has ever known.” And yet, 15 years ago at TomDispatch, I was already wondering when Americans had first become so proud of, and insistent upon, declaring our military the world’s absolute best, a force beyond compare, and what that meant for a republic that once had viewed large standing armies and constant warfare as anathemas to freedom.
Still laughing over the shrubs and weeds of Ukraine are busting up the greatest offensive ever.
Bolshevik enemedia slime at 1830hrs were on about “corrupt recruiting” in the 51st CPUSA (D) state Ukraine.
Saw a video of some poor Ukrainian schlep with club foot as bad as Goebbels showing up with his draft notice and an alarmed mother, the apparatchik comrade said that he couldn’t help.