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Maybe it's a form of organisational dissociation to deal with the horror of what's on the other end of the weaponry. If you were in a position of influence in
by afandian 5y ago
Maybe it's a form of organisational dissociation to deal with the horror of what's on the other end of the weaponry.
If you were in a position of influence in the army would you choose to soul-search about bombed children or try and construct some meaning around "Figure 4-1. Movement of the staff and command bugler around commander of troops".
- throwawaygh 5y agoIt's a jobs program. Someone has to employ all those boys who majored in the humanities at the academies and other feeder schools for the officer corps.
- airhead969 5y agoRelated: Project 100,000 - Build those org chart pyramids, grow budgets, and get promoted. The MIC is about spending as much money as possible. Officially, it's $721,531,000,000 FY2020 "In 2018, it was announced that the Department of Defense was indeed the subject of a comprehensive budgetary audit. This review was conducted by private, third-party accounting consultants. The audit ended and was deemed incomplete due to deficient accounting practices in the department." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_States#Reform https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_...
- lolbrels 5y agoWar is inherently horrific. Being able to operate systematically under such conditions is invaluable. I think you could have come to that conclusion without the anti-war rhetoric, we get it - atrocities of war are terrible, this is not a unique/interesting perspective.