The Most Effective Weapon on the Modern Battlefield Is Concrete (2016)

Re:The Most Effective Weapon on the Modern Battlefield Is Co... by not_real_acct on Monday December 10, 2018 @07:33PM (#18652394)

I imagine this had a huge impact on the drug trade too:

In the 1980s, the US and the USSR were fighting numerous proxy wars in countries like Nicaragua.

When the USSR collapsed, you had thousands of trained soldiers who stopped receiving a paycheck. If you've spent the last ten years fighting in a war, you're not just going to put down the AK47 and go work on a farm.

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Re:The Most Effective Weapon on the Modern Battlefield Is Co... by baud147258 on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @05:56AM (#18654484)

Regarding Irak, the US shut down the army, putting thousands of trained soldiers out of a job

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