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The DOD-P (and much of the DOD) will function in a dual purpose capacity whereby each member of the DOD has dual training and functions; one military, one civilian. (This is how the Israeli society has been able to stabilize and protect itself in the harshest of threat environments over the past 60 years.) The dual-purpose DOD will serve to defend us from all traditional military threats, as well as against ignorance/marginal engagement in public education (e.g. avg. 20-25% high school drop out rate across the country), poverty, toxins, and domestic threats …all in coordination with the FBI, HS, HHS, CIA , NSA and SEC.
Defense Talking Points
I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States to defend us against all enemies foreign and domestic. To do so requires a new, refreshing but realistic, 21st century interpretation of “enemies” in order to leverage our massive military institutions and resources to provide traditional defense while also leading the way in defending us against ignorance (i.e. ineffective educational and family-parent accountability systems), toxic environments, and hopelessness (lack of purposeful connection to community and to regularly serving the needs of others before oneself), and hatred or fear of others who seem very different.
The primary enemies to the sustainable safety and security of the American citizen are: a toxic and deteriorating environment; widespread ignorance (involving outdated public education methods and facilities and thorough parental/family engagement in school participation), as well as misunderstandings of the greater world around us); hopelessness leading to opioids and other mis-used, pain-reducing drugs; lack of economic competitiveness due to limited capital flow into start-up and mid-level creative entrepreneurial ventures throughout the nation; lack of living wage jobs; a completely outdated national transportation, waste management, clean air/water, and clean energy infrastructure.
To serve dual purpose military and civilian functions, the budget and size of the Department of Defense will actually be increased to achieve these goals. For example, the US Department of Education budget will be subsumed within the DOD; as will the EPA and the budget and function of rehabilitative medical and psychiatric service responsibilities of HHS. Why? Because the DOD, in coordination with the General Services Administration, and US Office of Personnel Management actually has the experience, ability, and capacity to implement or contract: for superior education; plan and implement civil engineering/HAZMAT mitigation; and enforce family-rehabilitation efforts more reliably, measurably, and effectively than other federal or private institutions.