PS DefenSe in the us.
It’s a fairly recent development. It was created as the department of war by Washington and remained that until 1947 where it split into the departments of the air force and army, joining the already existing department of the navy, which together made up the national military establishment (NME), which was renamed 2 years later to the DOD.
Still the work of Edward Bernays and others, the father of modern propaganda.
- Military-industrial complex
- War machine
- Merchants of death
There are many names.
“The Ministry of Peace”
-Orwell
Please respect and enjoy the peace ☮️
- Emperor Cleon, who ended the galactic wars
“Gentlemen! You can’t fight in here! This is the War Room!”
- President Muffley, in Dr Strangelove
Old joke from when I was in engineering college.
What’s the difference between a electrical engineer and a civil engineer?
One builds the bombs one builds the targets.
The US used to have the Department of War. Then it split up after WWII into the departments of the army, navy, air force and the overseeing department was renamed the department of defense. Probably a branding thing.
edit: a word
100% branding. Cant go around admitting to attack and start wars. Its defense, guys. On other countries soil. Right?
You’re talking about the same industry that coined the term “preemptive strike” instead of calling it what it is: starting a war.
I’ve always heard to it referred to as the “military industrial complex”. Eisenhower tried to warn us about it in the 1950s.
Smedley Butler was warning us in 1935. War is a Racket .
“I didn’t shoot a baby, I neutralized a threat!” - the IDF
They also cause Famines, Plagues, and Pestilence. They have whole departments devoted to nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons.
They’re not a one trick pony.
pollution/conquest, death, famine, pestilence.
It was the department of war but the government decided that that name was too honest, makes the corpos look bad too
Protecting your own country doesn’t always involve actively declaring war with everyone. Often it’s economic or cyber infrastructure hardening related
For countries like Finland, the Ministry of Defense is not about offense, and is very heavily armed.
And they already stopped using the swastika in 2017!
Yeah … no.
Ask Europeans if they feel working in that industry right now feels like anything but for defensive reasons.
Indeedy, my wife works for the German army.
So the US and Shitrael
OK then, I feel likes our defense industry is working for US imperialism and hegemony.
Which is our role as vasals.
Gentlemen! There will be no fighting in the War Room!
