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On Tue, 6/16/15, Greg Chalik <mrg3105@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Question
 To: "tml@simplelists.com" <tml@simplelists.com>
 Date: Tuesday, June 16, 2015, 11:19 PM

 >It would
 be very nice if military procurement programs were all
 about having an appropriately-capable military. But they are
 actually at
  least equally about 1) justifying the careers - both past
 and future -
 of the various decision makers involved and 2) providing
 economic
 support for the research and manufacturing complexes
 involved.
 Given
  that both 1) and 2) are unlikely to change - particularly
 in the
 capitalism-based Third Imperium - all the various
 misadventures related
 in the up-thread posts here have likely been seen in the
 OTU.  <

 Yes
 Richard, which is why today the USMC and the US Army are
 irrelevant as operational (former) and strategic (latter)
 military forces.
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Rubbish!

There's just so many who disagree that's it's pointless to ennumerate.

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