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"tasked with". That role was assumed, not given. Anyway yeah I bet you could cut back foreign power projection activities by at least a third and have stronger
by coenhyde 8y ago
"tasked with". That role was assumed, not given. Anyway yeah I bet you could cut back foreign power projection activities by at least a third and have stronger power projection as a result by concentrating effort. The US has ~800 military bases around the world. That's got to cost a LOT to maintain.
- gaius 8y agoThe US Navy was tasked by the civilian government.
- coenhyde 8y agoBut not by the world, which is what I was referring to. Since the role attributed was "world policeman". My point is that the "world policeman" responsibilities are an easy justification for a military posture which is very aggressive. If the world needed a world policeman we'd create an institution and have governance projected from that... oh hang on that's the UN.