Perhaps this is why Obama threw out so many officers, West Point turned gay, tranny admiral, and high school diploma not required for enlistees.
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Not to prevent overthrow, per se, but the coof shot requirement was an ideological purge, I agree.
Lack of HS degree requirement has come, and gone, over the years due to recruiting needs. At the height of the Iraq War, they were looser and all you needed was a GED. Then as things wound down, it got stricter, as there was a surplus. Same goes with signing and re-up bonuses.
The vax mandate was a selection for those who blindly follow orders. That does not bode well for the future if the soldiers are ordered to fire upon civilians.
True, that is a good point. But the OP said that the military was weakened to prevent a military dictatorship (presumably a Trump character crossing the Rubicon), not that it was purged to get the NPCs necessary to have a lefty version like the Reds taking over Russia. That's a separate argument.
Either way, the military is weakened. A weakened military will be less able to take over for a Lenin as well as for a Caesar.
You brought up a good point - the vaxed military is just as subject to the heart attacks as the civilian population, so in a civil war any unvaxed have a little advantage.