Governments already can't be trusted to conduct these wars properly. A completely unaccountable corporation doing it would be 10 times worse.
They're going to make it as financially effective as humanly possible, which could be the worst-case-scenario.
In the not too distant future, on a tired battlefield, war has become routine.
for profit war crimes anyone?
Yeah if this becomes profitable by any means, its going to be what we got now but 100x worse.
Why do we have films and tv shows and books and stuff that tells why doing the bad thing would be bad but some people want to do it anyway?
They see it as Fake news, TV, movies and books are fictional, they know better, the lure of THE ALMIGHTY DOLLAR, etc
Denial.
The Blackwater guy?! The guy we KNOW takes meetings with foriegn governments and whos organizations keep getting caught doing warcrimes?! Really trum- what am I saying, of course he'd love him.
Let em'.
They wanna deal with this shitshow, be my guest. Afghanistan is a lost cause, already 60% of the country is in the hands of the Taliban. We are not gonna win anything there but more bodybags.
Except they're not being your guest, they're being the guest of Afghan citizens who will have to put up with what is essentially a US military with even less accountability.
That's a reason to pull out, not a reason to privatise.
This goes beyond Afghanistan, if they can privatise Afghanistan they can privatise elsewhere, it sets a precedent. It opens the gates to some 21st century "East India Company", Erik Prince even uses the language of the East India Company, advocating for a Viceroy in Afghanistan. We let it happen in afghanistan and we risk it becoming the new norm.
American's will still be coming home in body bags, but instead of risking life and limb to serve their country they're risking life and limb to make Eric Prince and the share holders ever so slightly richer - it won't be safer easier, PMCs in afghanistan are notorious for not supporting/equipped their own guys properly.
METAL GEAR SOLID 4: GUNS OF THE TRUMPS
Seriously, if military becomes a private industry and Trump is the president to allow this
ignoring any hate anyone has about him or anything he's done wrong
For profit military would become the biggest fuck up any US president has made
Trump owes Erik Prince favours for his role in helping maintain contact with Russia. The Seychelles meeting was highly suspicious,and Prince is the perfect type of arrogant bastard to go through with it all.
Unless, of course, said president would like a private army of his own loyal to his own dollars instead of the country.
Isn't this the premise to one of the Black Ops call of duty titles?
Trump will almost certainly back anything Erik Prince does
Also Metal Gear Rising (though really, (the military industries in) Europe and the US pretty much does this kind of stuff already via weapon sales into unstable regions.
Widespread PMCs would make it much worse, though).
Just wait, Trump might have enough time left in his administration to bring in autonomous killing robots too. God help us all.
metal gear solid wasn't supposed to be an instruction manual
Classic US strategy, send the army in with no clear goal, fail at the mission without ever understanding why and then throw your hands up and declare it a lost cause and give up.
"Give up" but also wait decades before actually stopping
Make sure you blow up plenty of shepherd boys while the brass sit around and wonder why so many of those darn afghans keep joining the Taliban.
Truly a mystery.
Basically equates to “we need more military spending to drop more bombs on people who aren’t even terrorists”
I’m pretty sure this administration has lost interest in counting civilian casualties.
Obama was pretty huge on the drone strikes as well so ended up killing quite a few civilians himself
this is a problem that far outreaches just this Administration alone
How do you reconcile your, for lack of a better word, "Sovreign citizen tendencies/militia" with supporting the Military Industrial Complex that Eisenhower warned your country of?
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military–industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of
misplaced power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable
citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together.
-Dwight Eisenhower
Not like they made it any better. In fact, I’m pretty sure this administration has far surpassed Obama’s record of civilian casualties.
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