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From the military's point of view, the public's willingness to support a war is at least as important as better planes and bombs. Every military parade and Blue
by tlb 9y ago
From the military's point of view, the public's willingness to support a war is at least as important as better planes and bombs. Every military parade and Blue Angels flyover are the military spending money to convince the public that war is glorious.
The shift from promoting a particular war to promoting war generally has to do with the number and frequency of small wars. In 1940, it was sufficient to get the public hating Hitler and Hirohito. Now, there are too many enemies for the average person to keep straight.
- lisper 9y agoI think it also has something to do with the fact that every war the U.S. has fought since WWII has ultimately turned into a disaster.
- khc 9y agodepends on what you mean by disaster, I think a lot of South Koreans are thankful that US participated in the Korea War
- romwell 9y agoOK, OK, since the Korean War then.
- ponzisatoshi 9y agoY'all young or something, desert storm was only what 30 years ago?
- lisper 9y agoThe Korean war is not over. But OK, fair enough, I'll revise my claim and say that every war since Korea (i.e. in the last 65 years) has been a disaster. (And Korea was not exactly considered an unalloyed success even back in the day.)
- oh_sigh 9y agoUS invasion of Grenada in 1983?
- m_mueller 9y agoI find Ex-Yugoslavia is entirely defensible and should have been cleanes up by EU members, US came in because noone stepped up. But that’s about the only sensible foreign military effort since Korea I can think of, and Korea was saved from having overly hawkish generals mess it up.
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoThe first Gulf War was successful if they had just left it at that.