{"id":27451,"date":"2011-11-13T08:16:58","date_gmt":"2011-11-13T12:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27451"},"modified":"2011-11-13T08:16:58","modified_gmt":"2011-11-13T12:16:58","slug":"portugal-has-an-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27451","title":{"rendered":"Portugal Has an Army"},"content":{"rendered":"

And they are pissed!
\nPortugal’s soldiers hold rare protest against cuts<\/a><\/p>\n

At the army protest, there was anger at government proposals to decimate armed forces numbers and cut back wages and promotions.<\/p>\n

Antonio Lima Coelho, one of the organisers, said servicemen and women were willing to make their share of sacrifices, but the government was taking a big risk in rushing through measures that were not properly thought through.<\/p>\n

“A military institution is organised in a pyramid way. If we start stopping this pyramid to be well formed, we will endanger discipline, cohesion and the mission of the armed forces,” he said.<\/p>\n

The military has a special place in society – and in Portuguese hearts.<\/p>\n

In 1974, a group of officers ended decades of dictatorship with a coup that ushered in democracy.<\/p>\n

But the military gradually withdrew from politics.<\/p>\n

So, many people were taken aback when one of the leading conspirators of 1974 said in a recent interview that another coup would be in order if the government went too far in curbing the military’s rights.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Kinda fascinating. There are some parallels with what DC seems to be proposing for our military, of course, but I ain’t gonna push any comparisons too far.<\/p>\n

Frankly, I’ve never fully understood why the whole Euro-Zone business left standing national armies anyway, but that is for another discussion.<\/p>\n

I suspect the scenes with Portugal and their military will be playing out in several other countries across the Atlantic as more counties try to find ways to protect their heavy socialist agendas. Time will tell, but they do have a lively track record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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