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Has the American cultural veneration of Militias over traditional Armies influenced its real-world military doctrines? /k/ommando 09/02/2025 (Tue) 19:08:27 No. 15474
There's a very popular conception in the American zeitgeist of the victory of determined and cunning citizen militia over a professional army, using the tactics of native warriors, firing their Kentucky rifles from behind rocks and trees at British soldiers marching stoically in red coats. It fits in with other myths about American self-reliance, Of course, the reality is far more complex, and almost every historian acknowledges that. Still, the idea persists in many segments of American society with Star Wars having the plucky rebels beating the Empire and more overly Red Dawn depicting rural teenagers successfully fighting off professional military forces. So given how irregular militias are often romanticized. Has this cultural belief ever shaped actual military doctrine or influenced how the US approached the Cold War?
I would argue that it has, but only in that the American military emphasizes the aristocratic elements of modern war, such air air power, while they neglect things like ground based air defenses, which would be more in the wheelhouse of militias. The US military seems designed to be the very opposite of what the founding fathers intended, and I think that's deliberate.
>>15474 The doctrines shaped by the militia movements would be applicable to some segments, SOF, COIN, the like. Generally, I think what makes the US military good at waging war is what made it a good society. Meritocracy.
>>15474 >and more overly Red Dawn depicting rural teenagers successfully fighting off professional military forces. I haven't seen the remake, but in the 1980s film, didn't everyone die?
>>15483 Yes, but it's implied that America won in the end and possibly that they played a part due to the memorial at the rock


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