re: #339 Stanley Sea

From what I’ve read it’s same old, same old. Quite a bit of this stuff was already broadly known, this just provides detailed confirmation. I don’t think this rises to the level of the pentagon papers, there is no high level overview that was unknown to the American public, with the possible exception of the extent of Iranian involvement.

What becomes clear is that the military deliberately sanitizes the war, both the actual combat and the unintentional fuck ups of the Us military. The issue with this is that we know the US does this, and has been doing this since at least 1896, if not earlier. I think the real damage this is going to do is in terms of military contractors, a whole bunch of this stuff is related to specific companies, and that’s going to do some serious damage to their reputations. IMO this is probably a good thing, we’ve been too reliant on contractors to carry out military operations because of an unwillingness on the part of the military to admit how large a commitment these wars actually are. I would like military doctrine to take a hard turn away from private security forces.