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The purpose of the military is not to be an effective fighting force. That is, at most, a happy side effect. The purpose is to shovel as much public money as po

The purpose of the military is not to be an effective fighting force. That is, at most, a happy side effect. The purpose is to shovel as much public money as possible into the private companies comprising the military industrial complex. So your efficient-market-hypothesis-but-for-the-military idea is essentially just not even wrong.

scottyah 3y ago
There's a group of people for whom that may be true, but it's certainly not a driver for the majority of people in the military.
- ahelwer 3y ago
  The will of the majority of people in the military is irrelevant, because they don't call the shots. The military is not a democracy.