There is no real external threat to American freedom and sovereignty. We honestly could probably eliminate the Active duty Army and have only Guard and Reserve and still be fine.
There is no real external threat to American freedom and sovereignty. We honestly could probably eliminate the Active duty Army and have only Guard and Reserve and still be fine.
US is behind the largest oceans in the world bordered by militarily weak neighbors.
Even if you largely disbanded your ground forces as someone said you would still have the most effective navy and Air Force in the world backed by second largest nuclear arsenal.
Hardly defenseless. Gutting your ground forces abroad would decrease your influence though.
Who said anything about defenceless? We have two ground borders, one of which is with one of our strongest allies, which means we effectively only have one land border to worry about, and the Mexican military isn't that strong. Most of the threat to us would be from overseas, literally, which the USAF and USN can stop. And just with our NG and Army Reserve, if we fully mobilize them against an attack on the US, have over 500k soldiers between them. That's larger then the active duty military of all but a small handful of countries.