If you haven't already, go read General Butler's War Is a Racket and Marine!, the General Puller biography. Our incompetence in warfighting is a direct result of corporate influence, and has been for a century. If we had super capable and competent militaries, we could get away with smaller militaries. Look at what the Marines were from 1940-1990 compared to the Army, and imagine if that concept were carried over to every service branch.
The fact that military men are often prohibited from maintaining their own damn equipment because of obscenely cronyist contracts genuinely shocked me the first time I heard about it. How the fuck are you supposed to fight a war if you have to wait for a licensed contractor technician to be sent over every time you need something fixed?
That's obviously a decision to prevent armies going rogue. If a division is self sufficient than that general can easily coup the government. No doubt that's how it was sold at first anyway.
Also, I just have to say, I despise modern leftists. They managed to take any of the positive points out, while keeping all the negatives. Antiwar? Slava Ukraini! Anti authoritarian? Nope...STATISTS.
Nothing more pathetic than a statist leftist, man.
I'd argue that all leftism is statism. They're only anarchists until they can take power. Their ostensible goals require overwhelming state power to enact upon the unwilling.
The reason why that contradiction doesn't bother them is because they're comfortable with their hypocrisy.
If you haven't already, go read General Butler's War Is a Racket and Marine!, the General Puller biography. Our incompetence in warfighting is a direct result of corporate influence, and has been for a century. If we had super capable and competent militaries, we could get away with smaller militaries. Look at what the Marines were from 1940-1990 compared to the Army, and imagine if that concept were carried over to every service branch.
The fact that military men are often prohibited from maintaining their own damn equipment because of obscenely cronyist contracts genuinely shocked me the first time I heard about it. How the fuck are you supposed to fight a war if you have to wait for a licensed contractor technician to be sent over every time you need something fixed?
"Your puny AR-15 can't do anything against a tank!"
"I'm sorry, sir, but all of our tanks are stuck in the garage. The civilian technicians keep...disappearing."
That's obviously a decision to prevent armies going rogue. If a division is self sufficient than that general can easily coup the government. No doubt that's how it was sold at first anyway.
Also, I just have to say, I despise modern leftists. They managed to take any of the positive points out, while keeping all the negatives. Antiwar? Slava Ukraini! Anti authoritarian? Nope...STATISTS.
Nothing more pathetic than a statist leftist, man.
I'd argue that all leftism is statism. They're only anarchists until they can take power. Their ostensible goals require overwhelming state power to enact upon the unwilling.
The reason why that contradiction doesn't bother them is because they're comfortable with their hypocrisy.
I (and many others, to be fair) have said before that leftists can't be hypocrites, because you need principles to be a hypocrite.
Amounts to the same thing, in essence. One cannot speak falsehoods so constantly without rewiring your brain.
There's nothing hypocritical about anything they do because their single goal is the destruction of civilization.
I know the general gist, but I'll check them out. I've heard good things, but haven't read them myself.