Oh gosh, the old "The ARRL is protecting our bands" argument.
Wake up, nobody wants our HF bands, not even the military.
Everything is done with Satcoms now. More reliable,
easier, cheaper. And the ARRL sure did a fine job
of protecting the 220 MHz band, a part of which we
lost to UPS.
Every issue of QST has at least one photo of ARRL
officials off on an all expenses paid junket (or two)
to an obscure "who cares" conference.
Like another poster said, the League protects
the League's interests, not my amateur radio interests.