This is eye-opening!
In WWII, Japan 's highest ranking naval officer was Isoruku Yamamoto. Although he was Japanese, and his loyalties were unquestionably with The Empire, he studied for many years in America , graduating from Harvard University.
There is an oft-repeated (and sometimes disputed) quote attributed to him regarding the possibility of any nation taking a war to American soil:
"You cannot invade the mainland United States . There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass."
Here is why he was correct:
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America 's Hunters. The World's Largest Army.
The state of Wisconsin has gone an entire deer hunting season without someone getting killed. That's great, considering there were over 600,000 hunters that got permits this year.
Allow me to restate that number.
Over the last two months, the eighth largest army in the world - more men under arms than Iran; more than France and Germany combined - deployed to the woods of a single American state to keep the deer population under control.
But that pales in comparison to the 750,000 who are in the woods of Pennsylvania this week. Michigan 's 700,000 hunters have now returned home. Toss in a quarter million hunters in West Virginia , and it is literally the case that the hunters of those four states alone would comprise the largest army in the world.
And that is just FOUR states.
The total population of registered hunters in America today ranges from 23 million to 43.7 million individuals. (Based on annual data provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.) As long as the American Hunter retains his right to Bear Arms, America will forever be safe from foreign invasion of troops.
Hunting - it's not just a way to fill the freezer. It's a matter of national security.
In WWII, Japan 's highest ranking naval officer was Isoruku Yamamoto. Although he was Japanese, and his loyalties were unquestionably with The Empire, he studied for many years in America , graduating from Harvard University.
There is an oft-repeated (and sometimes disputed) quote attributed to him regarding the possibility of any nation taking a war to American soil:
"You cannot invade the mainland United States . There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass."
Here is why he was correct:
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America 's Hunters. The World's Largest Army.
The state of Wisconsin has gone an entire deer hunting season without someone getting killed. That's great, considering there were over 600,000 hunters that got permits this year.
Allow me to restate that number.
Over the last two months, the eighth largest army in the world - more men under arms than Iran; more than France and Germany combined - deployed to the woods of a single American state to keep the deer population under control.
But that pales in comparison to the 750,000 who are in the woods of Pennsylvania this week. Michigan 's 700,000 hunters have now returned home. Toss in a quarter million hunters in West Virginia , and it is literally the case that the hunters of those four states alone would comprise the largest army in the world.
And that is just FOUR states.
The total population of registered hunters in America today ranges from 23 million to 43.7 million individuals. (Based on annual data provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.) As long as the American Hunter retains his right to Bear Arms, America will forever be safe from foreign invasion of troops.
Hunting - it's not just a way to fill the freezer. It's a matter of national security.
Yamamoto never made any such quote. Spatiality alone, to say nothing of strategic sealift capacity, made any "invasion" of America utterly impossible. In any case, America could have easily avoided war with Japan had it not pursued an confrontational, "in your face" foreign policy towards her. Finally to kill an animal for sport is immoral.
ReplyDeleteAmerica could have easily avoided war with Japan had it not pursued an
ReplyDeleteconfrontational, "in your face" foreign policy towards her. Finally to
kill an animal for sport is immoral.----------------IMMORAL ????? IT IS
IMMORAL TO LET THEM OVER POPULATE AND STARVE OR GET CWD. (chronic
wasting disease ) WHAT A FRIGGING PACIFIST!!!!!!! OUR FATHERS FOUGHT WW2
SO THAT IDIOT COULD SAY THAT!!! IF THAT PERSON DOES NOT LIKE IT THEN GO
TO ANOTHER COUNTRY AND SAY IT ! THEN GET SHOT FOR SHOOTING HIS OR HER
MOUTH OFF !!!!! TIM PS -- I HUNT FOR
SPORT AND EAT WHAT I KILL !!