On: Darpa Pushes ‘Mosaic Warfare’ Concept

[zitterbewegung]

Because every weapons program is also a jobs program .

[chii → zitterbewegung]

Why not just create a jobs program directly, rather than inefficiently and with many middleman taking their cut?!

[Apocryphon → chii]

Not palatable to 20th century American cultural mistrust of government aid.

[mtremsal → Apocryphon]

See also the TSA?

[zitterbewegung → chii]

Because it also ensures that your weapon systems are made in this country .

[peteretep → chii]

Because decades of propaganda that it’s socialism if the owners of capital don’t get a cut in the middle

[wnevets → chii]

how else would well connected people become rich?

[PavlovsCat → zitterbewegung]

It's a taxpayer subsidy to the military-industrial complex. That some of that money ends up in the pockets of workers is a sad reality that cannot yet be avoided, but it's hardly "the reason".

That would imply a level of care that is completely incompatible with a lot of things. Take the use of low-IQ troops in Vietnam:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J2VwFDV4-g

But the defense budget is so people can "put food on their family"? It doesn't even begin to add up.