PS DefenSe in the us.
It’s a fairly recent development. It was created as the department of war by Washington and remained that until 1947 where it split into the departments of the air force and army, joining the already existing department of the navy, which together made up the national military establishment (NME), which was renamed 2 years later to the DOD.
Oddly enough, this also coincides with the time when the US military was more explicitly about offence rather than defense. After the Revolution, people mistrusted the federal government having a large standing army. The army was raised up in time of war, and everyone went home when it was over.
Post-WW2 was the first time the US kept a large army in “peace”. Been that way ever since.
defense
offence
Make up your mind!
Claiming the US was not immensely offensive before WW2 is laughable Even in the 19th century when they colonised plenty countries and took control from from Britain or Spain,…
And this in the most brutal way.
It was the period where they gained the most land and influence.
“the people” or their opinion has nothing to do with it and they could’t give a shit about what they mistrust or not.The US didn’t have a large standing military or budget for it. This matters.
What are you trying to say?
In the 1860’s they surpassed the size of the British navy.
And in case you didn’t know leeching of colonies and slaves is a lucrative.
Still the work of Edward Bernays and others, the father of modern propaganda.
- Military-industrial complex
- War machine
- Merchants of death
There are many names.
A way of keeping people employed usefully in many highly skilled jobs so you don’t need to give them social security payouts for being jobless. In this way it is a truly excellent idea.
The problem is that it happens at the expense of other jobs, and the lack of transparency makes corruption way too easy.
“The Ministry of Peace”
-Orwell
Please respect and enjoy the peace ☮️
- Emperor Cleon, who ended the galactic wars
funny how the israeli military is called a “defense force”. haven’t been doing much defending.
I have been calling them the genocide force for the past year
Diaper force
But when you’re Hamas, defending your country from invaders: terrorists!
“Gentlemen! You can’t fight in here! This is the War Room!”
- President Muffley, in Dr Strangelove
Old joke from when I was in engineering college.
What’s the difference between a electrical engineer and a civil engineer?
One builds the bombs one builds the targets.
The US used to have the Department of War. Then it split up after WWII into the departments of the army, navy, air force and the overseeing department was renamed the department of defense. Probably a branding thing.
edit: a word
100% branding. Cant go around admitting to attack and start wars. Its defense, guys. On other countries soil. Right?
You’re talking about the same industry that coined the term “preemptive strike” instead of calling it what it is: starting a war.
“I didn’t shoot a baby, I neutralized a threat!” - the IDF
I’ve always heard to it referred to as the “military industrial complex”. Eisenhower tried to warn us about it in the 1950s.
Smedley Butler was warning us in 1935. War is a Racket .
They also cause Famines, Plagues, and Pestilence. They have whole departments devoted to nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons.
They’re not a one trick pony.
pollution/conquest, death, famine, pestilence.
It was the department of war but the government decided that that name was too honest, makes the corpos look bad too
Protecting your own country doesn’t always involve actively declaring war with everyone. Often it’s economic or cyber infrastructure hardening related
Yeah … no.
Ask Europeans if they feel working in that industry right now feels like anything but for defensive reasons.
OK then, I feel likes our defense industry is working for US imperialism and hegemony.
Which is our role as vasals.Indeedy, my wife works for the German army.
So the US and Shitrael
For countries like Finland, the Ministry of Defense is not about offense, and is very heavily armed.
And they already stopped using the swastika in 2017!
