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When you're the global hegemon, all postures are defensive.
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Lawman 0 posted:Has one ever considered a defensive posture There's like two wars the US was in, ever, that qualify as defensive. Not going to happen unless people stop believing US empire is for the good of the world rather than for the good of the oligarchy.
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Its really funny because when I was in the military, everyone from rank and file airmen like me to the wing commander complained about how the personnel/actual unit funding was at ridiculous all-time lows but for some reason R&D and production contracts are like 80% of the national budget or whatever
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Jul 18, 2017 12:26
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i skimmed like three sentences and concluded that the writer started with the conclusion GIVE US MORE MONEY and just tried to build a case for it
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Jul 18, 2017 12:28
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Larry Parrish posted:Its really funny because when I was in the military, everyone from rank and file airmen like me to the wing commander complained about how the personnel/actual unit funding was at ridiculous all-time lows but for some reason R&D and production contracts are like 80% of the national budget or whatever 
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Jul 18, 2017 12:55
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Jul 18, 2017 13:27
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What im saying is, hang the nobles
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Jul 18, 2017 13:33
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They privatized chow halls by thee time the Iraq War was in full swing. The USMIC is little more than an elaborate scheme to reappropriate public funds into the private sector. Even the CIA and FBI have to massively outsource intelligence work to private contractors because of artificial caps placed on government agencies in terms of employment & salaries. Generally speaking no government employee is supposed to earn a bigger salary than a congressman, and the same is true of the military. Max base salary for a four star general is only $180,000. You'd have to be insanely principled not to do grift work for private companies which can guarantee you twice that amount for consultancy in "retirement." tl;dr it's arbitrarily impossible for the government & military as-is to compete with the private sector and retain its own brain trusts, so now the brains are all thinking of ways they can grift the government instead of serving the public
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Jul 18, 2017 13:42
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:They privatized chow halls by thee time the Iraq War was in full swing. The USMIC is little more than an elaborate scheme to reappropriate public funds into the private sector. Even the CIA and FBI have to massively outsource intelligence work to private contractors because of artificial caps placed on government agencies in terms of employment & salaries. Generally speaking no government employee is supposed to earn a bigger salary than a congressman, and the same is true of the military. Max base salary for a four star general is only $180,000. You'd have to be insanely principled not to do grift work for private companies which can guarantee you twice that amount for consultancy in "retirement." Nationalize all that poo poo imo immediately
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Jul 18, 2017 14:40
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:They privatized chow halls by thee time the Iraq War was in full swing. The USMIC is little more than an elaborate scheme to reappropriate public funds into the private sector. Even the CIA and FBI have to massively outsource intelligence work to private contractors because of artificial caps placed on government agencies in terms of employment & salaries. Generally speaking no government employee is supposed to earn a bigger salary than a congressman, and the same is true of the military. Max base salary for a four star general is only $180,000. You'd have to be insanely principled not to do grift work for private companies which can guarantee you twice that amount for consultancy in "retirement." I did the math once and if I ate at the chow hall for 2 roughly 1250 calorie meals a day, it would end up costing like $700 a month at like ~$13 a meal. The stipend the Air Force gave me in lieu of free meals was $230 or so. 
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Jul 18, 2017 15:16
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Also I didn't get that stipend nor was I registered for meal cards for like 8 months, and when I was getting it sorted out my chief didn't let me get the meal card even when I pointed out how it was a massive rip off since I usually ate at the chow hall anyway
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Jul 18, 2017 15:18
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quote:The study team suggests there is a single core defense implication of hyperconnectivity—”speed kills.” With hyperconnectivity comes a quantum increase in the velocity of change in strategic circumstances. lmao is all us military writing like this
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Jul 18, 2017 15:59
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I think to be truly representative it needs to include the term "kinetic".
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Jul 18, 2017 16:03
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Lawman 0 posted:Nationalize all that poo poo imo immediately That would be the natural solution to the problem, but first you have to get over the hurdle of inherited wisdom that the government workforce should be capped at around 2 million, which it has been since the 1950s. http://historyinpieces.com/research/federal-personnel-numbers-1962 I had to go to a JFK history site just to find somebody who had graphed both Federal & military employment together but it's all there. The federal employment level has been roughly the same size since 1960 at 2 million employees, despite the country's population growing by 72% since then. What has been downsized since then is military personnel in two big waves, during the drawdown from Vietnam and the end of the Cold War when Bush & Clinton thought it was appropriate to downsize the military - in terms of personnel. Even after 16 years of a global war on terror, military employment has barely gone up at all. All of those functions have either been outsourced to contractors or sunk into more R&D.
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Jul 18, 2017 16:04
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chuunibyou demo sensou ga shitai
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Jul 18, 2017 16:06
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the entire united states government just being a vehicle to enrich a few dozen companies and contractors through unspeakable violence is pretty cool imo
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Jul 18, 2017 16:24
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Larry Parrish posted:Its really funny because when I was in the military, everyone from rank and file airmen like me to the wing commander complained about how the personnel/actual unit funding was at ridiculous all-time lows but for some reason R&D and production contracts are like 80% of the national budget or whatever the elites want ed209's so they dont even need ground troops that could possibly turn on them.
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Jul 18, 2017 17:58
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Slightly related but after a month of Qatar refusing to address the list of demands the Saudis the latter are backing off. loving owned.
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Jul 19, 2017 14:31
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saudi arabia realized they couldnt starve qatar like they're doing with yemen
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Jul 19, 2017 18:19
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Can't wait for Bellingcat's vicious expose on the cholera epidemic in Yemen. Any day now.
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Jul 19, 2017 18:48
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAQzoqdNsmo "344,000 people are infected or suspected to be infected with cholera... 42% are children" 
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Jul 20, 2017 05:27
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Otacon fucks
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Jul 20, 2017 11:17
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Darkman Fanpage posted:saudi arabia realized they couldnt starve qatar like they're doing with yemen I lolled how Trump gave Saudi Arabia a blank check since he's a narcissistic easily manipulated rube.
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Jul 22, 2017 11:48
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8iofZIdaVM
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Jul 23, 2017 17:51
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oh hey this thread exists well i don't know why people pay bellingcat and sy hersh so much attention compared to people in the actual war who don't have a choice whether or not to participate in it
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Jul 23, 2017 17:59
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Peel posted:lmao is all us military writing like this
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Jul 23, 2017 18:01
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https://twitter.com/ericbradner/status/889714761725865984
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lmfao
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Jul 25, 2017 13:40
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also lmfao https://twitter.com/gulf_news/status/889572646458843140
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Jul 25, 2017 13:40
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the middle east is cool lol
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Jul 25, 2017 13:42
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"Firearms experts tell us that there's nothing tying these weapons to Russia, but American military officials say 'YUH-HUH!'"
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Jul 25, 2017 13:45
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The only expansion on the GWOT I would support would be tactical strikes on every living member of the House of Saud
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Jul 25, 2017 13:50
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We have all these drones, and we oughta use them for global good
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Jul 25, 2017 13:50
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It would honestly be epic if it was true and the roles in the fight against the Mujahids completely reversed tbh
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Jul 25, 2017 13:51
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It's probably true I guess, but the truth of the thing isn't really what matters.
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Jul 25, 2017 14:29
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6rFJnKYPNU https://youtu.be/S3TH5bj55rs
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Aug 8, 2017 23:45
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good news! we're gonna hire erik prince's mercs to take over the forever war!!! http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/erik-princes-afghanistan-plan-could-boost-his-company-china-2576492
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Darkman Fanpage posted:good news! we're gonna hire erik prince's mercs to take over the forever war!!! The greatest plan to date for making the Taliban seem sympathetic.
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Aug 10, 2017 07:12
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:It's probably true I guess, but the truth of the thing isn't really what matters. What is the thing what really matters
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Squalid posted:What is the thing what really matters The war. Whether or not the Russians are supplying weapons to the Taliban isn't really important, because if they are it's being done with enough plausible deniability that there's not really anything America could do about it. What matters is that the Taliban is apparently capable of fighting the occupation indefinitely.
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