I was having a discussion with someone earlier this week about politics and world wars and it got me thinking. American democracy is on the way out. Sounds bad? I guess it does. Anyway, that's not the point. The question is, what's going to take its place?
If you look at history, militarily wise, we can see an evolution taking place from the beginning of time. Take William the Conqueror. His army in 1066 numbered, what, in the 40,000's or maybe not even that much. Anyway, the point is this: American Civil War, hundreds of thousands in Army size; World War one, same size in Company size; World War two, more so in Company size; and so on. Anyway, in Vietnam we had platoon size formations going into the jungles to fight. With the progression of time technology has forced military tactics to evolve to the point that now we have squad size infultration units involved in surgical strikes.
The Army's in use have become smaller. That's the reason why morale is faultering. We don't know how to fight World War III. What we have missed is the evolution. People have been wondering about World War III. My theory is is that we are already fighting it. The difference is is that warfare has changed so much that we can't recognize it. In 2001 the US was hit. A year later, I think, Italy was hit. Just this passed week, Spain was hit. Even Bush mentioned a "Global War".
The US is at the center of the whole ordeal. That's the reason American Democracy is faultering. But that's not the concern we should have. We should worry about what comes next. Warfare is always changing. That we can deal with. Voters have been on the decline for the passed couple of years. Some of us don't care about politics anymore. That's the fear. That's the problem. When the time comes, we won't be able to keep tyranny from the Presidency. It may not be that visible because history has been a major view for all people. World War Two can be considered recent history. Too many people remember living through the effects. It may not be a dictatorial style of government, but it may be an office ditatorship with backings from corporations. I was wrong when I told that person I was having a discussion with that World War Three was not going to happen for a couple more years (My theory). I should have realized that in its evolved state, we are there already.
If you look at history, militarily wise, we can see an evolution taking place from the beginning of time. Take William the Conqueror. His army in 1066 numbered, what, in the 40,000's or maybe not even that much. Anyway, the point is this: American Civil War, hundreds of thousands in Army size; World War one, same size in Company size; World War two, more so in Company size; and so on. Anyway, in Vietnam we had platoon size formations going into the jungles to fight. With the progression of time technology has forced military tactics to evolve to the point that now we have squad size infultration units involved in surgical strikes.
The Army's in use have become smaller. That's the reason why morale is faultering. We don't know how to fight World War III. What we have missed is the evolution. People have been wondering about World War III. My theory is is that we are already fighting it. The difference is is that warfare has changed so much that we can't recognize it. In 2001 the US was hit. A year later, I think, Italy was hit. Just this passed week, Spain was hit. Even Bush mentioned a "Global War".
The US is at the center of the whole ordeal. That's the reason American Democracy is faultering. But that's not the concern we should have. We should worry about what comes next. Warfare is always changing. That we can deal with. Voters have been on the decline for the passed couple of years. Some of us don't care about politics anymore. That's the fear. That's the problem. When the time comes, we won't be able to keep tyranny from the Presidency. It may not be that visible because history has been a major view for all people. World War Two can be considered recent history. Too many people remember living through the effects. It may not be a dictatorial style of government, but it may be an office ditatorship with backings from corporations. I was wrong when I told that person I was having a discussion with that World War Three was not going to happen for a couple more years (My theory). I should have realized that in its evolved state, we are there already.
posted by Crescamus in Christos at 3/20/2004 02:13:00 PM
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