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And all this talk about smaller forces and abundance of robots means that the political will to maintain this is waning. Training people and providing them opp
by busterarm 6y ago
And all this talk about smaller forces and abundance of robots means that the political will to maintain this is waning.
Training people and providing them opportunities is expensive and the federal government has less and less desire to pay.
Such a shift in policy could have negative consequences and I hope the Army doesn't evaluate this lightly.
- save_ferris 6y agoMaybe, but I could also see the shift towards automating war as a profit incentive for the military industrial complex. It’s very clear that the military has enjoyed decades of relatively lax financial oversight. IIRC, the military branches were ordered to become audit-compliant during the Obama admin and they never did. Every once in a while, some general would retire in disgrace after financial impropriety was discovered, but by and large, its been a massive cash-rich free-for-all for those with military contract connections. I think this is just next evolution of the private military sector tbh.