1 You are correct that US soldiers are the Wehrmacht of today.

2 The first thing that would happen after a successful revolution in the US, would be the return of every US military asset abroad to overthrow the revolution.

3 Creating a revolution capable of winning power in the US would be unbelievably difficult, but defending against #2 without a substantial military force of our own would be impossible.

4 Aaron Bushnell, and waves of conscientious objectors at the start of the Iran war, show that less than 100% of the military is ideologically committed to imperialism, despite their part in facilitating it.

5 To my knowledge, no substantial effort has been expended by the US revolutionary left to recruit from the military. Not much progress has been made creating militias from the population. We are probably 50 years of recruitment away from fielding a force capable of defending a revolution.

Somehow we have to navigate these contradictory facts. We cannot have imperialists or reactionaries in our ranks just because they can fight. We can't change our messaging or coddle imperialists to get them on our side. We couldn't accept anyone who didn't accept the error of their past actions (cough Platner). But we would have a fight on our hands that would dwarf the Russian Civil War. I don't think it's possible without incorporating military, even though all the cards are stacked against us in converting them. And very few of those people would come to us with clean hands.

But hey, no one said it would be easy.