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2012-10-25 11:18 6441657 Anonymous (american-flag.jpg 450x338 77kB)
Does anyone wonder why the US is investing so much into it's military?
It's a bit strange.
Lucky I'm a citizen
1 min later 6441671 Anonymous
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gahL5j4ack
2 min later 6441685 Anonymous
Does anyone wonder why this guy is asking such a stupid question ?
It's a bit strange.
Lucky I'm not a retard.
3 min later 6441692 Anonymous
because the USSR
12 min later 6441796 Anonymous
>>6441685
But why are the boosting it's military so much?
14 min later 6441808 Anonymous
>>6441796
They are coming for you.
15 min later 6441822 Anonymous
>>6441796
Military-Industrial complex from the Cold War.
Once we fall into enough debt, it'll fall away.
19 min later 6441861 Anonymous
>>6441796
Because millitary equipment is like Iphones in a way. They keep upgrading and the goverment gets the shit straight away because they funded it. Then the companies that made it sell it to the rest of the world for alot of $$$ and they cycle repeats every few years or so.
27 min later 6441966 Anonymous
>>6441861
http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/the-future-of-warfare-robots-lasers-and-supersoldiers
3 hours later 6443764 Anonymous
Because we've essentially been at non-stop war for 200 years due to doctrines and policies that take into consideration our geopolitical, resource, and monetary interests.
For instance, the Monroe Doctrine (1865) says that we have to keep european intervention out of the Eastern Hemisphere. This justified the Spanish/American War and anything pre-1915.
The Truman Doctrine (1947) says that we should send money, arms, and/or troops to countries threatened by communism. This justified just about anything from the 50's to the 90's. Though, it can be contested that Vietnam was begun in the interests of tin mine owners fretting losing their stuff.
Due to the existence of policies of this nature, our military must be made fit to meet needs of them. This, of course, is the starting point. After that it becomes about money and resources. Oil is an interest of the USA, if we don't have enough to run our infrastructure, it is said that we will collapse. To run efficiently, we must secure these interests. But really, lobbyists for companies push these issues.
There's something about the whole South America ordeal (school of the americas) that I don't know why we went in other than to assert dominance and regional control. Panama was a big thing, obviously, because of the canal. But the others are lost on me. . . . . . And then there's the other stuff, which is really just about geopolitical bologna. It's not about dictators, lack of democracy or anything. We've placed people like that into power.
3 hours later 6443798 Anonymous (gook_image05.jpg 471x600 155kB)
The second America lets their guard down the entire world will know it's time for revenge
3 hours later 6443799 Anonymous
I thought you can't have dual citizenship if you're a dutchie
3 hours later 6443806 Anonymous
>>6443798
that guy looks more like a chinamen than a nip
3 hours later 6443810 Anonymous
Because might makes right.
3 hours later 6443815 Anonymous
>>6443798
the lunacy of those A Wyatt Mann comics always cracks me up
they're like a racist version of Chick tracts
3 hours later 6443823 Anonymous
>>6443799
Pretty sure that's only a problem if you get your citizenship through naturalization.
3 hours later 6443874 Anonymous (1348972854762.png 421x423 82kB)
Silence the Collaborating scumbags.
3 hours later 6443876 Anonymous
>>6443764
Think about it like this. You're at school. You're one of the baddest motherfuckers on the playground (and in space). You don't particularly like this other badass mofo because he's after the girl you're after. You don't fight. You seek and gain allies (of weaker fortitude) in case you do fight, and so does the other guy. One day, two of the smaller dudes feud, and you think they'll fight. So, you give advice and train your smaller guy, and so does the other badass mofo. If allies of the other guy intervene, you have to be ready to intervene to protect your alliance. Because if he loses, then you have been weakened. If that does happen, then everyone gets pulled in and you have a brawl (world war). Which, then, you would need to be at a strength greater than your foes. It's not that we beef up our military for the current stuff, but where we think our enemies are going to increase their strength. It's just Game Theory
3 hours later 6443892 Anonymous
We have to protect Europe while they spend all their money helping immigrants!!!
3 hours later 6443894 Anonymous
>>6443876
That is the worst explanation of America's foreign policy I've seen in a while.
3 hours later 6443911 Anonymous
>>6443894
Meh, I've been drinking, and I remember that this was kind of the explanation I got in elementary school for what began WWI. (hahahahaaaa~)
You would prefer I just said that we like being on top and any threat to our monetary interests justifies us making military intervention?
3 hours later 6443932 Anonymous
The jews want us to protect our greatest ally in the middle east
3 hours later 6443939 Anonymous
>>6443894
Also, be mindful that Game Theory shaped just about all of our foreign policy from 1955-1988
("If you asked me if we should nuke russia tomorrow, i would ask 'why not now?' If you asked if we should nuke russia in an hour, i was ask 'why not in 15 minutes?' If you asked me if we should nuke russia in 15 minutes, i would ask 'why not now?' "" It's just about being ahead of your opponents, because you have to assume they are thinking what you have realized already, and undercut it.)
3 hours later 6443943 Anonymous
>>6441657
any other country would have done the same if they had the chance
that is what states do, they try to be as powerful as they can when they can
France, UK, Germany, Russia, all did it.
now, it's America who are the strongest, it's a simple fact
they will exerce their power untill they collapse from inside or another foe overpowers them
it won't be soon, though
3 hours later 6443960 Anonymous
>>6441966
http://news.yahoo.com/navys-laser-weapons-just-2-years-away-admiral-173636089--abc-news-topstories.h
tml;_ylt=A2KJ3CZx44lQhhkAy9zQtDMD
were already past the planning stage, were in the installing stage
only 2 more years for killer laser death rays on all american ships
MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA
3 hours later 6443967 Anonymous
>>6443911
It's a gross oversimplification, but it's closer.
3 hours later 6443995 Anonymous
>>6443967
yeah, i'm all over the place. Good thing i'm just going to be in the military, and not running it, huh?
captcha Enlisted Thnomy
4 hours later 6444018 Anonymous (200px-Unit_mech_copyL[1].png 200x210 62kB)
>>6443960
lets see china's econemy surpass us when they are nothing but a giant pile of ash
4 hours later 6444025 Anonymous
>>6444018
>giant pile cash
That's what they'll need to buy anything with their inflation.
4 hours later 6444050 Anonymous (robocop0904_639x800.jpg 639x800 191kB)
>>6443960
>SOON
4 hours later 6444065 Anonymous
>>6444050
hey i remember last year there was an article about smart sniper bullets we had invented that will hit an infared target if you aim close to it, they cost too much to give to soldiers tho
soon we wont need trade and culture to rule the world
4 hours later 6444077 Anonymous (1349134033153.jpg 329x218 26kB)
4 hours later 6444134 Anonymous
>>6441657
the government spends so much on the Department of Defense for a few reasons:
1. Having the best weapons means that no country can ever defeat us (or so goes the theory)
2. Constantly purchasing and upgrading planes, ships, and guns acts as a stimulus to the economy
3. Keeps American Universities on top and helps research and development of small, unprofitable projects until they become profitable or useful (a good example would be NASA and Velcro, or the Internet)
4. supporting the military is an easily advertisable populist move
A good example where all this comes together is during World War Two, as the government dumped insane amounts of money into weapons development which postwar was used in the civilian marketplace. For example:
long range bombers --> jet liners
atomic bombs --> cancer treatments
battlefield rations --> m&ms
jeeps --> cars
lightweight aircraft materials --> plastics/Velcro/glow in the dark stuff
military transports --> semi trucks
it goes on. It really is amazing how much stuff we use comes from the DOD
4 hours later 6444148 Anonymous
They're afraid the lower classes will become too educated if they stop wasting money on wars and spend it on education.
4 hours later 6444163 Anonymous
>>6444050
unatco?
4 hours later 6444216 Anonymous
Because the military here is attempting to create some weird shit.
>A self guided bullet.
http://phys.org/news/2012-01-self-guided-bullet-prototype-mile.html
>A robotic pack mule
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSbZrQp-HOk&list=UU7vVhkEfw4nOGp8TyDk7RcQ&index=7&featur
e=plcp
>A robot cheetah.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chPanW0QWhA&list=UU7vVhkEfw4nOGp8TyDk7RcQ&index=2&featur
e=plcp
>Navy Railgun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uV1SbEuzFU
There was also plans to make a combat drone that was launched underwater from a submarine, that would swim to the surface and fly into the air and bomb targets, but it was cancelled I believe.
4 hours later 6444238 Anonymous
>>6444216
Eventually our army will probably consist of mostly autonomous robots with laser and rail weaponry.
Dare to dream
4 hours later 6444256 Anonymous (cheetahbot.png 446x462 373kB)
>>6444216
I can't wait.
4 hours later 6444280 Anonymous
>>6444216
the sad/awsome thing is that we are succeding with these too, they arnt just pants on head retarded going nowere like our phycic warefare against the commies in the 60's (we did get acid from that tho)
4 hours later 6444289 Anonymous
>>6444256
nice proxy iran
4 hours later 6444293 Anonymous
>>6444256
Keep it from Iran.
4 hours later 6444307 Anonymous
>>6444280
How do you know it didn't go anywhere? Maybe we have psychic soldier now which is probably how we found Bin Laden.
4 hours later 6444334 Anonymous (1352218921345.jpg 328x309 15kB)
>>6444307
Shhh.
4 hours later 6444346 Anonymous
>>6444293
>>6444256
What the fuck are you talking about? What does a cyborg cheetah have to do with iran?
4 hours later 6444347 Anonymous
>>6441671
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gahL5j4ack
Why is he so underrated as a President? People go on about that FDR fag and Kennedy but no one ever talks about Eisenhower.
4 hours later 6444359 Anonymous
>>6444347
because fdr and kennedy were some of the worst presidents but they appealed to the tards, and there are more tards these days
4 hours later 6444365 Anonymous
>>6444347
Because he warned about the Military-Industrial complex at the end of his term after helping it for his entire presidency. The military-industrial complex has also always existed so it's not that big of a surprise. Also, he was against non-native born soldiers serving in the military even though the US military has always had large numbers of immigrant soldiers.
Basically he says things that don't always match up to what he did, still a decent president though.
4 hours later 6444368 Anonymous
>>6444347
Because when you truly do something great people won't believe you've done anything at all.
4 hours later 6444408 Anonymous (20100729070420!Yuri_red_alert.jpg 476x360 16kB)
>>6444307
Yuri Reporting in!
4 hours later 6444421 Anonymous (tin-foil-hat[1].jpg 600x450 78kB)
>>6444307
and maybe aliens caused 9/11 so that we would colonise pluto faster
4 hours later 6444443 Anonymous
>>6444421
Fool they want us to colonize Saturn.
5 hours later 6444561 Anonymous
To be honest I am not sure either. The US military can just time travel anyways. I think it is just corporate welfare.
5 hours later 6444591 Anonymous
>>6444561
Even if we ever got time travel we'd never use it due to the supposed consequences and it would never be made public knowledge unless we have it under lock and key and all use is severely limited with tons of bureaucracy.
6 hours later 6445247 Anonymous
As much as I hate the term (it sounds silly): the Military-Industrial Complex. There's an entire segment of the American economy devoted to pretending to be useful to the US Department of Defense. They buy politicians, and the politicians buy their products with taxpayer money.
Americans generally don't give a fuck, and most of the few who do think it's unpatriotic to stop it.
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