In his 2022 National Defense Strategy, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin laid out five key traits of America’s “future force.” The first among them: “Lethal.”
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In 2017, then-Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley said his “Modernization Priorities for the United States Army” had “one simple focus: make Soldiers and units more lethal.”
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In discussing the 2024 Pentagon budget request, Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen H. Hicks said the funding would deliver “combat-credible joint forces that are the most lethal, resilient, survivable, agile and responsive in the world.”
The imperial boomerang is the concept that repressive techniques to control colonial territories by governments will eventually deploy those same techniques domestically against their own citizens. This concept originates with Aimé Césaire in his 1950 work Discourse on Colonialism, where it is called the terrific boomerang to explain the origins of European fascism in the first half of the 20th century. Hannah Arendt agreed with this usage, calling it the boomerang effect in The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951).
That’s why I care more about what happens here than what happens in Gaza.
That’s why what was going on in Gaza during our 2024 elections didn’t play a big role in my decision making. Because we have our own very serious problems to deal with. And, coincidentally, making the right decision, which we didn’t, would have been better for the people in Gaza.
Modernizing the military to be more lethal and potentially more efficient isn’t the same as starting a civil war sending the military into American cities.
Kamala: “If you don’t vote for me, Trump will send in the military.”
Also Kamala: “I will ensure America always has the strongest, most lethal fighting force in the world.”
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Well… y’all got what you voted for, I guess.
Funding the military to fight outside the US is literally the same thing as using the military to round of civilians!
Great contribution to the discussion.
…yes, actually, it is.
Are the lives of Americans inherently more valuable than the lives of civilians in other countries?
As an American…yes.
That’s why I care more about what happens here than what happens in Gaza.
That’s why what was going on in Gaza during our 2024 elections didn’t play a big role in my decision making. Because we have our own very serious problems to deal with. And, coincidentally, making the right decision, which we didn’t, would have been better for the people in Gaza.
That’s the truth. Not saying I like it.
Least fascist .world user.
Modernizing the military to be more lethal and potentially more efficient isn’t the same as starting a civil war sending the military into American cities.