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A 4B warship but you can't afford 800K per shell. If we built stuff like that in WW2 we'd all be speaking Japanese.
by coldcode 10y ago
A 4B warship but you can't afford 800K per shell. If we built stuff like that in WW2 we'd all be speaking Japanese.
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- caf 10y agoIt'd probably be more cost-effective to pay 80 enemy combatants a $10k signing bonus to switch sides!
- bobsil1 10y agoAlways true in recent wars. $100B/yr in Afghanistan, could pay off almost every combatant for a fraction.
- gscott 10y agoMost of the combatants are doing it for the money. Plenty of articles on dads planting roadside bombs for a payoff. I don't believe these folks care where the payoff comes from. So we could easily just pay it but we will never do so because it makes too much sense.
- lostlogin 10y agoMush of the roams went back into US corporations though. However there is a fairly high chance that the same arms companies would have benefitted had a "paying off the locals" strategy been undertaken.
- desdiv 10y agoJokes aside, tactics like this was actually used in the Iraq war: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/us-army-chief-says-iraqi-troops-took-bribes-to-surrender-105987.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/us-army-... http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/2003/05/smart_bribes.html http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/...
- IndianAstronaut 10y agoWe also did this in Afghanistan. Exchanging viagra for tips. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1101874/U-S-gives-Viagra-Afghan-warlords-return-vital-Taliban-intelligence.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1101874/U-S-gives-Vi...