re: #506 Salamantis

Yep, you are as kooky as Ron Paul if you are talking about abolishing our military. When we let our generals run our wars, without being dictated to by civilian overseers except to tell them its time to fight, they perform splendidly.

Generals Petraeus and Odierno are cases in point.

I dont advocate it in entirety but there are some functions the army doesnt do that well and could be done better by other means and there is room for debate on this issue. You see armies aren’t very good at factoring in economics. Why have an F15 at $64000 and hour dropping $30000 bombs when a turbo prop monoplane like the Tucano with rocket pods does the same thing better? If not actually privatising air support of reconstruction then certainly running squadrons as though they were businesses may be an idea. That would be fun., Foward observers starting radio auctions to take out targets!