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Well there are economies of scale when you only have to maintain one standing army rather than 50 separate ones.
by Xichekolas 18y ago
Well there are economies of scale when you only have to maintain one standing army rather than 50 separate ones.
- gaius 18y agoActually, you only need 2, one for each coast. The Founding Fathers did not approve of expeditionary warfare.
- jerf 18y agoAs much as I love me some Founding Fathers, when they lived, 40 minutes got you a few miles away if you traveled with all available speed. Today, the other side of the world is only 40 minutes away on a ballistic trajectory. (And I'm not even counting information warfare where it's less than a second away.)
- jdminhbg 18y ago> The Founding Fathers did not approve of expeditionary warfare. I don't know that that's necessarily the case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Barbary_War http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Barbary_War
- jcl 18y agoLikewise, there are large-scale benefits to having a cross-country highway system, even if it goes through states that couldn't afford it on their own.
- lallysingh 18y agoAnd Texas would start invading everybody. :-)