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Living in a country with no such divide (Israel), articles like this one are alarming. Civil and military bonds run deep here, with a draft military producing g
by solatic 8y ago
Living in a country with no such divide (Israel), articles like this one are alarming. Civil and military bonds run deep here, with a draft military producing graduates who end up in the tech sector and go back to reserve duty on occasion until they're in their 40's. As a result, lots of technologies that might seem incredibly new to the American military have been long since evaluated, tested, and implemented in the Israeli military, because of the cross-pollination that happens here.
Americans need to get their shit together.
- chillacy 8y agoAmerica hasn’t fought a defensive war in awhile, the last few wars were about projecting power. A less charitable way of putting it would be: ever since Vietnam the US war machine seems to be concerned principally with bombing poor people in other countries, why should we support this? Also unlike Israel the US is in a pretty good location defense-wise, surrounded by allies and two oceans, and with the worlds largest nuclear arsenal. I think we’re good..