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

In message <q2qor15np9447q6qt6cbk35a0b8rbvscjg@xxxxxxx>, "David Loewe,
Jr." <dloewe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes

>"Amateurs study tactics, professionals study logistics."

You keep on saying that, but you never complete the quote.

"Leaders study finance." Money makes the world go around and it pays
for wars. You can have all the logistics you want but if there isn't a
constant stream of wealth flowing into the machine at the back end then
nothing gets done and you lose.

Right now the US government is borrowing money on the international
markets to pay for this war; that's actually OK in a survival situation
where it's borrow or die, like the UK did during WWII. Unfortunately it
comes around to bite you on the ass later when the kind gentleman
loaning you the money forces you to jump through hoops afterwards -- see
the Suez Crisis in 1956 for an example. Right now the Bush
administration is in hock to the Communist Chinese government to the
tune of about 700 billion dollars and rising; this is crippling their
ability to respond diplomatically to the Iranians who are selling China
large amounts of oil.

The US doesn't actually need to borrow money, it could do what every
other country at war has done in the past, go on a war footing and raise
taxes and demand sacrifice from its population to support the war effort
-- it's expensive but it would be easy to raise 100 billion a year in
taxes for the next twenty years or so to fund the war until victory is
achieved. For some reason it seems reluctant to do this though.
--
My gmail account is nojay1 Robert Sneddon
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