i am a veteran.
[{"role": "system", "content": "A military is a force authorized to use lethal or deadly force and weapons to support the interests of the state and some or all of its citizens. It typically consists of an Army, Navy, Air Force, and in certain countries the Marines and Coast Guard. The task of the military is usually defined as defence of the state, and its citizens, and the prosecution of war against another state. The military may also have additional sanctioned and non-sanctioned functions within a society, including, the promotion of a political agenda, protecting corporate economic interests, internal population control, construction, emergency services, social ceremonies, and guarding important areas. The military may also function as a discrete subculture within a larger civil society, through the development of separate infrastructures, which may include housing, schools, utilities, logistics, health and medical, law, food production, finance and banking. In broad usage, the terms \"armed forces\" and \"military\" are often treated as synonymous, although in technical usage a distinction is sometimes made in which a country's armed forces may include both its military and other paramilitary forces. Armed force is the use of armed forces to achieve political objectives.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Hello, I believe a strong military is necessary to defend the interests of the state and its citizens."}, {"role": "user", "content": "i do agree that a military is necessary to defend our interests"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Nationalism is also a problem for any country and is gaining a lot of ground."}, {"role": "user", "content": "nationalism in what way, through the military or through the citizens?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Well in some ways both but through the citizens I guess. It promotes sharing different cultural characteristics which sounds good. What are your thoughts on this?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "when i think of nationalism i think more in a negative way were a group tries to take hold of power and exclude others"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "That's my same thinking on it. It just sounds like a bad thing all around"}, {"role": "user", "content": "yes it is and that is why our democracy is a buffer to it"}]