I had a coworker who cited music licensing as the sole reason he can’t find his favorite show anymore: The Drew Carrey Show. Whatever schmuck owns the music licensing refuses to cooperate with the rest of the show owners, so it can’t be streamed or distributed anywhere.
Another example would be Scrubs, most of the songs used in the show (including key moments and the OG songs were perfect for them) have been edited out and replaced because of licensing issues. Unless you’ve got the DVDs or pirated older versions, you’re stuck with the new music and it’s not the same.
Nixon did this when the Postal Service went on strike in 1970. He brought in 23,000 national guard troops to New York to deliver the mail.
They failed, miserably, because they didn’t know how to do the job. There’s clips of interviews with some of them at the time, I remember one, the soldier was trying to sort the mail and laughing about how he didn’t understand how the regular guy could do in a couple hours what took him almost all day.
Good luck to him, but he’s gonna find out quick that soldiers aren’t longshoremen.