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Troops and marines deeply troubled by LA deployment: ‘Morale is not great’
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2025
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They are doing something. Morale and the degree of willingness to carry out orders is huge. Without moral and emotional buy-in from the technicians in the field performing the actual operation, the effectiveness of a task force, no matter how well equipped and trained, is severely diminished. Leadership is going to have a hard time keeping them engaged, especially if leadership itself is feeling the exact same reluctance and disgust.
What you're asking for is an outright mutiny and that's not going to happen. Dragging of feet and forgetting certain details of certain orders is the soft mutiny, or malicious compliance, you can hope for, civilian. Armies make or break revolutions based on how much they're willing to step aside to let the civilian dissidents get their way.
They haven't been ordered to do something patently illegal as of yet.
Disobeying an order can carry a sharp penalty for soldiers and it's frankly not worth the risk when the dubious order is to guard a federal building from people who pose no threat.
You want the military to strongly resist illegal orders, but having the military decide policy is a dangerous line to cross.