The Military Is Being Forced to Plan for an Unthinkable Betrayal(www.theatlantic.com)
31 pointsby breve18 days ago2 comments
  • zqna18 days ago
    The article didnt mention that following the chain the command to perform crimes doesnt prevent from having legal responsibility with Nurnberg process being a very known example.

    The history will be not merciful on neither people who initiated this, nor who enabled it or stayed silent while the crimes were performed using there names as a mandate.

    • aebtebeten18 days ago
      It seems a fair number of commanders have been resigning; a question to ask ourselves is: what have I been doing, beyond typing on HN?

      > ...the United States is not run by the military, nor should it be. Americans, and their elected representatives, must take this burden away from the armed forces...

      • jacquesm17 days ago
        I've been doing lots, but I'm not in the USA, thankfully. Everybody is able to do something, something concrete and useful, you just have to figure out what that something is and then go do it. It may cost you though.
        • gsf_emergency_617 days ago
          What have you been doing? GP is in Switzerland, not in USA. May have finance/miltech connections. You're in Benelux or not an old corpsbal I presume?

          What would dang do, within the realm of HN?

          (Yes, I believe they are doing something as well)

          E: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46696886

          (In that non-citizens can have much more agency than citizens. They certainly have more curiosity ;)

          https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46694482

          https://www.policymagazine.ca/man-with-a-plan-carneys-speech...

          >This room knows this is classic risk management. Risk management comes at a price, but that cost of strategic autonomy, of sovereignty, can also be shared. Collective investments in resilience are cheaper than everyone building their own fortresses. Shared standards reduce fragmentations. Complementarities are positive sum.

          • jacquesm17 days ago
            > What have you been doing?

            Sorry, I'm not going to post about that on HN, but it's considerable to the point that it has take up all of my spare time outside of the occasional paid job I still take because the money is too good. That helps finance the other stuff.

            • WA17 days ago
              Can you post a few ideas for fellow Europeans without disclosing what you’re doing? Are we talking small-scale stuff like "use Linux instead of Microsoft" or bigger, political things? Because as a German, I kinda feel pretty powerless and yet, I do have time and possibly resources that could be spent.
              • jacquesm17 days ago
                Bigger things and very concrete. Mail me?
                • WA17 days ago
                  Will do
          • aebtebeten17 days ago
            Carney's talk certainly rhymes with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46617676