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I dunno, forcing everyone to equip their armies with suicidal weapons seems like a great way to discourage future wars.
by saalweachter 8y ago
I dunno, forcing everyone to equip their armies with suicidal weapons seems like a great way to discourage future wars.
- killjoywashere 8y agoWar is diplomacy by other means, a fundamentally political decision. As long as there are armies, it is politicians who will send men to die, and those politicians are responding to their voting blocs. Thus senior military leadership is keenly interested in readiness. This requires training, R&D, and intelligence. "Are my officers and troops more physically and mentally prepared than the enemy's?" "What's the best weapon I've got?" and "What's the best weapon they've got?" are critical questions. See T. R. Fehrenbach's "This Kind of War" for the US's brutal baptism into the darker side of their role as a superpower, a war no American wanted to get involved in. The short-hand in history for this necessity of readinesss is Task Force Smith (2). (1) https://smile.amazon.com/dp/1574883348 https://smile.amazon.com/dp/1574883348 (2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Osan#Task_Force_Smith https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Osan#Task_Force_Smit...