"The One Thing Geeky Defense Analysts Never Talk About" Topic
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Tango01 | 27 Apr 2015 3:38 p.m. PST |
"The one thing defense analysts never talk about is violent death. While they are capable of superbly analyzing weapon systems, military doctrines, organizational structures and dissecting intricate details of what the future of war may look like, they rarely mention that the elephant in the livingroom of all their analyses is the violent killing of human beings. The simple purpose of any military is to be an effective and expeditious killing machine—cloaked in the justifying mantle of national defense and as permitted by the "laws of war." All the discussions about strategy, tactics, logistics, training, and procurement serve the single aim of killing men— and collaterally, or even intentionally, women and children—when elicited by the rationale or whim of state sponsored aggression. Perhaps defense analysts do not discuss violent killing because it is all too obvious. Also, perhaps they do not fully assess or comprehend the implications of their analyses and commentaries. Or perhaps they willingly embrace doublethink euphemisms in which killing is replaced by value neutral terms which sanitize slaughter and normalize the polite punditry of bellicose hellfire…" Full article here link Amicalement Armand |
jpattern2 | 27 Apr 2015 4:15 p.m. PST |
Defense analysts aren't the only ones. |
Ragbones | 27 Apr 2015 4:55 p.m. PST |
I wonder to whom Mr Gady refers to as "defense analysts." His CV lacks any mention of service with a defense agency. His statements are categorically false, stemming as they do from a position of ignorance or over generalization. If he's referring to defense analysts employed at think tanks, the Project on National Security Reform or similar endeavors he should specify as such. I won't speak for them but I can definitely state that analysts within the U.S. DoD and IC never lose sight of the death and destruction wrought by weapons and the policies under which they're used. We've been at war for fourteen years. We know the costs. We see it every day. |
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