Maybe I'm imposing my own, um, biases, onto the OC: methinks many of the replies here are wide of the mark. It's pretty simple. The costs and consequences of w

Maybe I'm imposing my own, um, biases, onto the OC: methinks many of the replies here are wide of the mark. It's pretty simple. The costs and consequences of war will be felt at home as well as abroad. First, creating a weapon means it's more likely to be used. An underlying feared consequence of the military industrial complex is that the build up increases the potential for violence at the expense of diplomacy. Second, the wages of war are paid by the people. Returning veterans discarded by the war machine. Families ravaged. PTSD, addiction, domestic violence, broken homes. Etc. Third, everyone's keying off the title, is the chaos in the aftermath of war, every where. The OC gives a historical example. This story is as old as humanity. I have nothing new to add here, but will note that some tried to mitigate these effects with stuff the League of Nations & United Nations, the Marshall Plan, and so forth. Stabilizing institutions which have been under continuous attack, from before they were even enacted. Those who ignore history are fated to repeat it, cliche, blah blah blah.