me:
> 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).
Yoshie:
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.
they don't care about the long term, do they? it's more a matter of cronyism, with each paying off the other. -- Jim Devine / "Self-exhaustion in war has killed more states than any foreign assailant." -- BH Liddell Hart.
