Does the military really protect our freedoms?

A military does the bidding of the government. Most governments today (including ours) are much more interested in enriching those in power and their colleagues than the freedoms of the general populous.
In the last 14 years many of the the freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution and Bill of Rights have been taken away from the American people under the guise of "homeland security". It is unlikely these freedoms will ever be restored and no one seems to care.
So, if you are asking me, "Does the military really protect our freedoms", my answer would have to be a resounding, NO!

Its meant to protect us from other countries taking over. Though we still have to listen to the government. However in some countries they do mandatory circumcisions on fully aware adults and chop off your hands for stealing. I don't steal but that is pretty brutal and I would rather not live under that ruling.

You can trust me. I'm the real hero.

All you need to know is that the government has no intention of sending soldiers off to 'fight for our country', the war in Afghanistan for example, it is unlawful. The law states that a war should only commence if a country is protecting itself from being attacked. America and the UK have sent their troups over to Afghanistan, entirely unprovoked, to attack and bomb thousands of innocent families including small children, babies etc. All the governments care about is getting resources such as oil and making money.
this is also why many parts of Africa and Asia are kept as third world countries, because without any money or education, they have no chance of protecting themselves and stopping other countries coming along and just taking all their resources for nothing.

The military protects our interests, which is an indirect way of protecting our freedoms. They do it from a high level, legal sort of way starting with certain changes made to our society as a result of the civil war.

In the uk most of our military are used abroad in other theatres of war and conflict .They are rarely used to protect us citizens . That task seems to be left to the police force who to be honest are not geared up to quell the violent demonstrations that are becoming more and more apparent here in England (notice I say England and not Britain . Britain consists of cross border immigrants from all the ratholes in Europe . England , like wales and Scotland and Ireland are are the lands of the indigenous peoples of these islands ......sorry folks but That's white Anglo Saxon .
Visitors are welcome tho) England like many of those countries that form the British Islands has became. A war zone for anyone who wants to come here and threaten our way of life . What we need is to bring our troops back to our home shores let's have a proper homeland security , a ring of steel to stop all these foreign crazies , and some home grown ones from getting in . Let's forget about trying to bring democracy to places where we all know it will fade away the minute we turn our backs . Let's keep the insurgents out of our back yards .
The Police (God luv em ) spend the vast majority of their time being paid overtime rates when there is a kick off on home soil .....they love it and you can't blame them . But how can you do your job properly when you have political correctness. Like the police watchdog whining about how hard you have beat the shit out of a machete wielding thug .
No I don't think the military protect us ....but they would if this millionaire bunch of cronies we call a government would let them .....bring back Oliver Cromwell

In your post you basically admit that without a military we would all just be hermits living alone, trading goods amongst each other.

The third-world tribes in Africa live that way. I don't want to live that way.

So by your own admission, yes the military is protecting our current way of life.

Not really. Theoretically they could prevent Exwyezeestan from invading, conquering and enslaving us all. I'm sure if that actually came up they would rise to the occasion and "keep us free", but it's difficult to imagine this situation this will happen.

Two reasons: One (regarding my country, the US in particular), it's really big and civilians have lots of guns. Even without the military even without the military, a hypothetical invaders would have a hell of a time taking over by force.

And two, countries really don't go around enslaving everybody that much anymore. I'm not completely sure why. But it seems to be so. Much more likely you just become citizens of the conquering country. Doubtless there would be a rough period, and maybe the new government is little worse than the conquered one, or it might be a little better. But at the end of the day one country is pretty much the same as another.

A military does the bidding of the government.

Oh dear.