- 31 Jul 2014 17:19
#14446054
I am surprised at how much the military resembles communism (equal wage scales, centralized command and supply, etc.).
But I am also thinking the modern military too is beginning to resemble a Technocracy: there are people whose careers are dedicated to mass movements of goods with minimum time and effort, engineers who develop technical equipment and choose the maximum effective deployment method, decisions not left to the sergeants in the field but to centralized specialists. Many ranking military members are and have always been engineers (Robert E. Lee for example, but nowadays much more so than in the past). How and where to deploy modern weapons requires more than a knowledge of chess, it demands an in depth technical understanding of the capabilities and functioning of the weapons themselves...
The military man's field food is pre packaged for easy use and specifically dictated by nutritionists for his active lifestyle...his clothing is chosen and even engineered for his specific duties...
Then of course there is the non-political aspect to a military (at least the US military in which political involvement is minimized as much as possible)...
How much like a technocracy is the modern military?
But I am also thinking the modern military too is beginning to resemble a Technocracy: there are people whose careers are dedicated to mass movements of goods with minimum time and effort, engineers who develop technical equipment and choose the maximum effective deployment method, decisions not left to the sergeants in the field but to centralized specialists. Many ranking military members are and have always been engineers (Robert E. Lee for example, but nowadays much more so than in the past). How and where to deploy modern weapons requires more than a knowledge of chess, it demands an in depth technical understanding of the capabilities and functioning of the weapons themselves...
The military man's field food is pre packaged for easy use and specifically dictated by nutritionists for his active lifestyle...his clothing is chosen and even engineered for his specific duties...
Then of course there is the non-political aspect to a military (at least the US military in which political involvement is minimized as much as possible)...
How much like a technocracy is the modern military?
(\__/)
(O.o )
(> < )
This is Bunny. Why don't you kiss his fuzzy ass?
(O.o )
(> < )
This is Bunny. Why don't you kiss his fuzzy ass?