Comments | the_recession: RE: Military Spending

nebris in the_recession

RE: Military Spending

Mar 15, 2009 17:28

~Given the dust up regarding military spending etc in the comment threads of our distinguished Mods post A little wisdom from Dean Baker, [yes, that was a suck up so stfu] I though it might prove salutary to examine the paradigm of American military spending, which I believe Germain to this community considering the rather significant portion of ( Read more... )

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rick_day March 16 2009, 01:10:50 UTC

I was ready to purchase it when I see it is only on Kindle. It's a conspiracy!

It's a conspiracy! nebris March 16 2009, 01:12:40 UTC

In all likelihood. ;)

~M~

The Modern Navy theheretic March 16 2009, 04:14:06 UTC

TED Talks had several speeches about 4th generational warfare and basically came to similar conclusions: the military is full of dinosaurs and the officers are REMFs but the general giving the speech was much more polite. He suggested that the military needs to aggressively review the current war and base its military on fighting that type of enemy, not ones from previous wars which don't exist anymore. Expending two tons of munitions and fuel to kill a single enemy is deeply retarded, to any military. We've seen those videos over Afghanistan, hunting individual human targets with a 105mm howitzer mounted on those aircraft is a great example of idiocy in action. Many things can be done to return the military to fitness and junking the obsolete crap is an important first step. Let the chips fall and get rid of the obsolete officers and staff. They've done it before in prior wars and peacetime. We sure didn't need horse cavalry in WW1. Total waste. We didn't need battleships much after WW2, and even then they were very easy to kill with ( ... )