Re: Politics and the military (Re: The rise in military science fiction)


Mark_Reichert@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Jordan wrote:
> > A modern Western army, equipped with the weapons of the 19th century
> > and given time to retrain in 19th century weapons and tactics, could
> > have kicked the crap out of almost any 19th century army ever seen,
> > simply because the human material is so very much better. There has
> > been tremendous progress in strategy, operations and tactics over the
> > last 100-200 years, which is often overshadowed by the equally
> > tremendous progress in the hardware end of things.
>
> But apparantly little progress in the political use of the military,
> perhaps because our politicians receive no training or certification.
> What does any of the advances in the military, or intelligence
> gathering, or diplomacy, or anything else get us if a cabal of
> politicians will ignore it all and follow their own subjective beliefs,
> confident that millions of willfully ignorant public will support them
> no matter what?

There's been tremendous progress in political use of the military. Or
do you consider deposing tyrants, spreading democracy, aiding those
devastated by natural forces, and feeding the hungry to be bad things?
Maybe the "wilfully ignorant public" are wiser than you think.

Cambias

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