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What is the difference between government fighting wars and PMCs fighting wars? Military power is military power, and government leaders are no more anointed an
by atemerev 11y ago
What is the difference between government fighting wars and PMCs fighting wars? Military power is military power, and government leaders are no more anointed and divine than PMCs leaders.
The age of kings is long gone.
- RockyMcNuts 11y agoThe difference is a guy becoming a billionaire fighting a war, and then facilitating / fomenting more wars to make more money.
- atemerev 11y agoGovernments have quite a history of doing the same.
- RockyMcNuts 11y agoThat's one reason democracy is a good thing ... the people getting sent to fight and die have a say, less moral hazard, since most people don't benefit from war. If a king or a billionaire can get rich fighting a war and has the power to make it happen, you're going to have more wars. It's probably better for civilization if a democratic government has a monopoly on extreme force like bombers, WMDs. War is sufficiently stupid, it's probably better if entrepreneurs don't disrupt it, and the military remains the one 100% socialist enterprise in America.