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It's not just about raw effectiveness per dollar. Lost lives hurt morale quite a bit, and play badly on domestic news.
by e1ven 8y ago
It's not just about raw effectiveness per dollar.
Lost lives hurt morale quite a bit, and play badly on domestic news.
- mcny 8y ago>> Lost lives hurt morale quite a bit, and play badly on domestic news. I don't follow military news but even I know that US military lagged YEARS behind private contractors in adding ground transport for troops that were safer against road-side bombs during the first few years of the Iraq War starting in 2003.
- saiya-jin 8y agoPlus they used to say it takes cca 1 million $ to train a fighter pilot from scratch properly, and god knows how long. this was quite some time ago, so I expect both cost and duration of training must be higher/longer now