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Originally Posted by FO Seaman The US is a military oriented nation. It's how we came about. It's people however are not as a whole military oriented.
Just felt like pointing out that you don't have to be born here to be an American.
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No we were not a military oriented nation and that is not how we came about.
We did "come about" in a revolutionary war and almost immediately disarmed afterwards. By the war of 1812, we had almost no standing army. It was even in our constitution that no army would ever be kept for more than a two year period.
Prior to the cold war we had one solid tradition concerning the military and that was to demilitarize as quickly as possible after a war. The cold war changed that. That was the first time the US kept a large standing military other than navy. Navy has long been in a separate category due to the necessity of having a navy to ensure safe trade.