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["Josep L. Guallar-Esteve" <jlguallar AT maduixa.net>]

On Wednesday 04 June 2003 10:06 am, Michael Winslow Czeiszperger wrote:
> But why stop there? Why pay to have a military that sits around most of  
> the time? The military is a monopoly just like the police. If  
> outsourcing all of the design, operations, and manufacturing duties is  
> good for NASA, why wouldn't it be a good way to go for the military?  
> Instead of having to pay for soldiers to sit on their butts most of the  
> time, you can just hire 'em when you need 'em. It would have to be  
> drastically cheaper since especially if took advantage of cheap  
> offshore labor.

This has been tried, many times. It has a desing flaw: "outsourced armies" 
are 
not motivated to die by someone else's wills.

Check Darius and other Syrian and Persian rulers, who had outsourced their 
armies, that is, an army made out of conscripts and hired troops.

Once and again (and again and again), "outsourced armies" have failed. And 
they are not like software, where you can send a patch to fix it. If they 
fail, you are royaly/republicanly scr*w*d.

BTW, this was part of the results of a study I did loooong time ago.


Salut,
Josep
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