Socialism is the workers owning the means of production.
Professional national armies are the government doing things, how collectivist that is depends on the government.
Even the Soviet Red Army while it was fighting Nazis wasn’t “socialist” except in the sense that it was, in theory, defending the rights of the workers.
I wouldn’t really call it socialist because it’s not self-funding. The 99% of non-military people put a huuuuuuuge amount of money into the military community to fund its creation and existence.
I wouldn’t necessarily call it a meritocracy either because it’s way easier to buy your way into being an officer than any E-to-O program and because who gets promoted in a difficult rate can get very political very quickly.
The military is literally a socialist meritocracy and for some reason people insist we can’t have socialism in the US
Socialism is the workers owning the means of production.
Professional national armies are the government doing things, how collectivist that is depends on the government.
Even the Soviet Red Army while it was fighting Nazis wasn’t “socialist” except in the sense that it was, in theory, defending the rights of the workers.
I wouldn’t really call it socialist because it’s not self-funding. The 99% of non-military people put a huuuuuuuge amount of money into the military community to fund its creation and existence.
I wouldn’t necessarily call it a meritocracy either because it’s way easier to buy your way into being an officer than any E-to-O program and because who gets promoted in a difficult rate can get very political very quickly.
So it’s neither of those things.