The Government’s Addiction to ‘Secret Law’

Re:The Government’s Addiction to ‘Secret Law’ by dmix on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @01:46PM (#12736925)

ISIS is hardly a problem when it comes to the military industrial complex. The constant fear mongering over Russia recently is the real and serious driver here. The military doesn't want to fight ISIS because it's not predicated on expensive jets, aircraft carriers, naval warfare, cyber, etc, etc.

It's not a mistake that any level of provocation by Russia is met with weeks of saber rattling and outrage in the media.

Although ISIS is a good driver for expanding the intelligence community. Hillary Clinton's primary military strategy that she promotes on her website is expanding an already bloated intelligence community and broadening intelligence collection. Both candidates are very much industrial complex friendly. That's one of the few things that's certain in this election.

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Re:The Government’s Addiction to ‘Secret Law’ by rfrank on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @02:14PM (#12737166)

if pure military industrial complex expansion was the goal, we'd already be fighting in the south china sea. a huge amount of manufacturing would be forced to move stateside again, and lockheed/nothrop/boeing/raytheon/etc. etc. would make a lot of money.

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Re:The Government’s Addiction to ‘Secret Law’ by gaius on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @02:59PM (#12737574)

expensive jets, aircraft carriers, naval warfare, cyber

But it is - the US military fought the Taliban in a landlocked country with F18s launched from aircraft carriers 200 miles away!

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