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Despite the U.S. constitution being intended to emphasise the separation of powers, the U.S. army has always been more political than the British one. Consider how many presidents were previously army officers, for one thing.
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Isn’t a lot of that down to timing due to them all being old men and the US had the Vietnam draft (plus dodging thereof) as well as the world wars? Quite a few UK PMs have been in the military too (also National Service). I’d say the only reason we didn’t in the 80s was because we had the female PM who shall remain unnamed here for fucking ages… Surely we’d have had more ex-forces without her?
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Two us marines and one army. Scary