Reduce War’s Tragedy
Reduce War’s Tragedy
By hard calculation.
Less tragedy formula;
Reduce every conflict to resource conflict - THEY ARE - then fight and settle on these tangible resources.
As opposed to intangibles such as “good” or “bad.”.
Nor ideology, or religion, and nor “democracy.”
Unless the intent is the utter destruction of the foe, in which case… with the understanding of what is being harnessed has its own monstrous agenda; of course it does, create the monster and its appetites and nature are monstrous.
See the World Wars.
There is always the problem of getting people to do the nasty stuff unless you can get them to hate and that develops it's own logic.
The first thing one is taught in any war fighting school (if you’re not current or former military, there is such a thing) is that war serves policy. Soldiers, Sailors and Marines fight (well, some of them), but politicians send them there. Politicians at the highest echelons- think SecNav, SecDef and the like- are not above vetoing the direction the fighters want to take the framework of the force. They do it often. My point in saying that is that if your post is directed at the politicians, that’s where the change would be made, if only it was heard, which it wouldn’t be- because they are politicians.
Trust me when I say that if the Colonels and Commanders of the world could get the funding and the quality of equipment and recruit and tech they desired, most (not all) of them would like less loss and PTSD and fewer nations that wanted to eradicate us from the earth. I got out in 99, and this was true then. I can only imagine that sentiment has grown but obviously I can’t be sure. I dig your message though. Good stuff man.