On 8/29/06, Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 8/29/06, Yoshie Furuhashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yoshie:
> The Rumsfeld Doctrine is an ultimate fad, a fad that translated the
> corporate management philosophy of "lean and mean" corporations
> powered by high technology and dependent on outsourcing into a
> military doctrine. Unlike an academic fad, in this case, this fad has
> dangerously sought to apply what works for corporations, whose
> externalities are paid for by the state, to the military, an arm of
> the state whose externalities have to be paid for by itself. Modern
> wars can be fought well only on the basis of state socialism or
> capitalism, and only guerrillas and terrorists, not states, can
> actually fight post-modern warfare.
the Rumsfeld Doctrine meshes well with the whole idea of spinning off
as much of the traditional military as possible to the private sector
(the Cheney Doctrine?). Even soldiering has been partiallly
"privatized," with all of those private security forces. This also
fits with the notion of the all-volunteer army (which may be biting
the dust as we speak).
Yes. When corporations outsource to subcontractors, though, they can
look forward to cost savings, by squeezing subcontractors who squeeze
their workers, but when the state subcontracts military work to
corporations, it may very well end up paying more for the same work,
at least in the short term, though it can look forward to savings on
pensions, health care, etc. in the long term.
--
Yoshie
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