Posted on 04/28/2013 2:13:44 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Built to dominate the enemy in combat, the Army's hulking Abrams tank is proving equally hard to beat in a budget battle...
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Sorry, but you sound incredibly petty and childlike, regardless of how you huff yourself up on the internet.
You should do more to explain to the world that large scale warfare is over and that man has moved beyond that, especially convince countries like China that war is over.
We would be in debt to you if you can bring world peace to man, and make future conflicts nothing but small operations with a few mercenaries and some push buttons.
People who truly mature gain humility as they realize that events often do not turn out as they thought. Money has tremendous power, that is undeniably true. But people don't always do as they're told, and paymasters are often mislead by their own vanity. There is nothing new under the sun, and human nature has not changed.
Thank you. “People never change” is a lesson I try to teach my students concerning history, and why it repeats.
GPS/laser guided bombs/rockets/missiles and anti-tank aircraft are much more efficient in doing the missions formerly done by tanks, which was primarily taking out other tanks.
These newer weapons are to tanks what aircraft carriers were to battleships.
War will forever be with us. It’s a sad part of being the killer ape known as “human.”
You know what the answer to state violence is? Capitalism. Wherever pure capitalism (not crony capitalism) is practiced, people spend their energy making money. Everybody wins, then.
/I sound petty because I’m trying to rattle your bars. When I intellectually slum with people like you, it entertains me.
Those are fine accomplishments, shared by many whose opinions vary. Thankfully, your hubris is less common. Most historians share a keener sense of their own limitations, knowing that their academic peers in past generations witnessed events take unforeseen turns.
No you sound petty because you got angry at posts 25 and 35, evidently your opinion that large wars are over for good, that historical warfare has ended because someone just recently invented money and commerce, is not to be challenged. Yeah, you are petty alright and weird to boot.
Africa and India don’t have the infrastructure and won’t anytime soon. China is the only country positioned to dominate manufacturing, despite some slippage in extremely low end products.
The bigger issue is that when the yuan becomes fully convertible, Shanghai and Hong Kong will challenge Wall Street.Finance is one area the U.S. still controls.
As an aside, Macao now does like 3 times the volume of Vegas. China is now the world’s largest auto market.
Yet the U.S. still thinks China just makes Happy Meals and is dependent on exports.
and mass formations of tanks are over
Fools always fight the last war.
The need for great nation-states is dying and the rule of amoral corporations is rapidly rising.
Small wars are the norm until the a large war starts. Read history, not fantasy.
This is why government spending will never decrease. Defense contractors (and others feeding at the taxpayer trough) have cleverly put facilities in most states, often in small towns, to make their projects impervious to cuts. As soon as the military says it doesn’t want something, the politicians from those areas insist that whatever it is, is vital.
Lockheed Martin, as one example, sells the government the most expensive, useless crap, and the politicians make sure the party never ends.
Funny thing is the use of mercs is a sign of weakness and of coming upheaval. Once the State looses control of the monopoly of violence, it typically falls.
Think about that. The majority of people have never lived in US that was on the way up.
The choice we have now is to either retrench, or over extend. That means we have to let Europe, Israel, et all go their own way.
And we had better start looking to the south. South America will start moving against us soon.
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