“Service men are not brighter than civilians. In many cases civilians are much more intelligent. That was the sliver of justification underlying the attempted coup d’état just before the Treaty of New Delhi, the so-called ‘Revolt of the Scientists’: let the intelligent elite run things and you’ll have utopia. It fell flat on its foolish face of course. Because the pursuit of science, despite its social benefits, is itself not a social virtue; its practitioners can be men so self-centered as to be lacking in social responsibility.”
- Heinlein, Starship Troopers
do you think she understood that the entire world clad its sons and daughters in steel and nickel as roaring, earth shattering angels of death spitting the fires of hell just for her?
Not a cellphone in sight, just two young lovers livin in the moment. A Seiko 6139 (maybe 7060?) on the wrist of a young G.I. as he shares a cowboy cold PBR with a visiting Playboy Bunny in Vietnam.
It’s important that the GOP support a complete defense industrial base expansion, to include the revival of mercenaries, to act as a sponge for ex military talent and expand the footprint of the American defense apparatus worldwide.
It also enriches Republican congressional districts with good jobs and entrepreneurs.
Bring back Blackwater and DynCorp. Create more of them.
Marching is not fighting.
A good army is a good fighting force, not a good parade show.
The 6 day war is probably the best proof of it, the Arab generals with all their medals and tight military suits surrendered to commanders wearing dirty field uniforms
“Maybe they'll be able to do without us someday. Maybe some mad genius ... will devise a weapon that can go down a hole, pick out the opposition, and force it to surrender or die—without killing that gang of your own people…I wouldn't know; I'm not a genius, I'm an M.I."
I remember reading about a Russian pilot who flew a MIG to Japan and defected to the US. He wasn't impressed by our buildings, monuments, or cars... but when the agent escorting him around D.C. made a quick stop for his wife at a grocery store, the pilot broke down and cried.
It’s the modern equivalent of pin up art on a B-29, or the figurehead of a wooden warship.
Men have been going to war with depictions of women for millennia.
It’s no coincidence that Ares was the god of war, but Athena and Nike were the goddesses of strategy and victory.