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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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Isn’t a lot of that down to timing due to them all being old men and the US had the Vietnam draft
Um, Washington? Jackson? Taylor? Grant? Eisenhower? To name just a few. All of whom were born a bit earlier than the Vietnam war.
Tell me you know nothing about U.S. History without saying you know nothing about U.S. History.
Quite a few UK PMs have been in the military too
Mostly because of WWII. The U.K. has nothing like the long-traditional U.S. fast route from being a senior military officer to becoming a politician. Wellington is an exception here, where in the U.S. he'd be typical. Lots of things wrong with the U.K. establishment but there's significantly more separation between the military and the political administration here than over there.
itsbruce
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.