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Do you want me to go alphabetically? Albania, Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Austria, Bahamas, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Bhutan. There's 10 countri
by jcranmer 4y ago
Do you want me to go alphabetically?
Albania, Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Austria, Bahamas, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Bhutan.
There's 10 countries, I'm not even out of the B's yet, and this is still skipping any country for which I think anyone might try to argue for the military's main focus to be to "loot and plunder other countries," not whether I agree with that assertion. Hell, I excluded armies whose main focus could arguably be to loot and plunder its own country rather than other countries (hi, Algeria).
And note that there a more countries on my list in this alphabet range than not on the list. Truly, there are more exceptions than examples to your proposed rule in the modern era, a very far cry from "there isn't one" indeed.
- aa-jv 4y agoIts not a matter of having the will to do it, its a matter of having the ability. The Austrian military orients its war plans around the plunder of Austria - i.e. to minimize the damage of other militarys' plundering the nation. There isn't any other purpose for a military than to manage this factor, either as aggressors or as defenders. Pillage and plunder is what militaries have always done, and prepared for ...