It's a Model, Not Prophecy!

[TeacherinExile]

(02-14-2017, 05:31 PM)Odin Wrote: Bannon's problem is that while he is smart, he's not quite as clever as he thinks he is. If he is aware of our online community and read the old forums he obviously missed all the criticisms a lot of us have had about S&H's socially conservative biases, for example. If Bannon thinks Millennials are going to willingly fight and die in a Christian holy war he is going to be sorely mistaken.

If the war is characterized as a "Crusade" or "Christian Holy War," you're probably right, especially if the pretext for war is flimsy.  On the other hand, what if the US--in concert with our European allies--declared total war on "radical Islamic terrorists," in response to a mass-casualty attack perpetrated by jihadis using a weapon of mass destruction?  Might not Millennials--here and abroad--be persuaded to enlist in a fight against Islamofascism, whose attacks finally reach a threshold that poses a genuine existential crisis?

The problem that I'm beginning to see with a war from a US standpoint is this: according to S&H theory, isn't any war supposed to be fought by Millennials?  They range in age now (by my own generational markers) from 16 to 35.  My point being that a large contingent of Millennials are getting too old to fight. (On its recruiting website, the U.S. Army reported an average enlistment age of just under 21 in 2012.) The Homelanders (which I date from the 911-attacks) are now turning 16, i.e., rapidly approaching the minimum age (17 or 18) for enlistment in the US military.  And the Homelanders are supposed to be the Artists, not the soldiers, according to S&H theory. 

Correct me if I'm wrong here.