June 6th, 1944 and June 14th, 1775 are two red letter dates to celebrate the U.S. Army each June. Yet, the Army doesn’t get celebrated enough, because it doesn’t self-promote as much as other Services and it sucks at politics. Always has. Yet, the two days of celebration are as significant as the Army was and will be to our Nation – these United States of America. The Army created the Nation, serves the Nation, saves the Nation in extremis, and will ensure the Nation’s survival. “This We’ll Defend.”
The D-Day invasion in Normandy opened the Western Front in World War II in Europe. It was the absolute guaranteed beginning of the end for NAZI Germany. It was the largest single day amphibious attack in the history of the world. It was a near run thing on one of 4 attacked beaches, but the Army prevailed.
Eighty-one years after D-Day, Americans attach significance in many, varied ways. Beyond the historical, political, personal emotional, cultural, nostalgic significances is what D-Day should shout about the Army.
Namely:
- Only the Army could do D-Day. The Army put 4 divisions on the beach in one day. There were only 6 Marine divisions – totally – in World War II. The U.S. Army is the Master of Land Warfare since World War II. The two years of detailed plans for D-Day and beyond were useless the day after D-Day, yet the mental preparation from all the planning was priceless. The Army service schools prepared the small Army – 19th in the world in 1939 (which included the Army Air Force) – to expand for global war.
- The Army wins wars. The Navy and Air Force service targets. The Marines are supposed to seize naval bases for the Navy. Nowadays, since they are two or three times larger than their mission, they’re the “mini-me” Army, but they’re not the Army. The Army destroys enemy forces, takes their surrender, occupies their land, and controls their population when ordered to do so. Flash of the obvious outside of the Pentagon and Congress: War is decided on land where people live.
- The Army may have to do a D-Day in Europe again. When the “Jacquerie” civil war of European peasants against their Muslim invaders and occupiers happens, they don’t have enough military and police to contain the violence. Our NATO Allies will need our help – unless they are successful in squashing their people and fully support the Muslims.
- The Army should be planning the way it prepared for World War II. 42-year old Major Albert Wedemeyer lead the Army’s War Plans Division team to write Victory Plan. The whole plan for winning World War II. The Army should lead again by planning how to win the coming war with the CCP which results in 75 or more years of peace afterwards.
The 250th birthday of the U.S. Army is a big deal. The Navy and Marines will celebrate as well. But, note the differences. The tiny Navy fought bravely, but did little to the British Navy. The Marines were a piece of paper in a bar in 1775, when the Army had regiments in the field fighting the Brits.
As long as the Army was in the field, the Revolution lived. The Army was resilient to rise from defeat after defeat to prevail and win. There would not be a USA (United States of America) if there wasn’t a USA (United States Army).
Finally, there’s never enough Army at start of a war, except for when the Cold War US Army destroyed the fourth largest Army in the world in less than a week – Operation Desert Storm 1991. Of course, that Army was down-sized.
In the future, the Nation will need the Army more than ever – in Europe and on the other side of the Pacific. Hope the parade in DC goes well and shows the Army well.
Thank you, U.S. Army.
Special thanks to John Bowden, 4th Virginia Regiment of the Continental Line.
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