LogFAQs > #897319465

Because a few things:

1. Infantry has been and always shall be the end all be all of warfare. This is why we lost Vietnam in spite of vastly superior firepower.

2. The military is actually at a distinct disadvantage compared to the citizenry. There are 300 million civilians in the US. And they can't even beat insurgents in the middle east.

3. We don't need a total military victory where we fight our way through to the white house and behead the president at the gallows. All we have to do is make it more worth it to serve citizen's interest than it is to fight them.

4. In the case of the military fighting its people, you now have military men fighting their own families and communities. There's no way they could keep loyalty.

Remember, the United States was literally formed by beating the greatest empire in the world at the time. The way they did it was by losing battles repeatedly until the British just gave up.