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Friday, July 10, 2015

US army to cut 40,000 soldiers over two years

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useful stats to note about cutback in US troops.........
pertaining to the qn below which came out last year, can make the insightful evaluation that cutback on troops more justifiable than cutback on weapons technology...In a war, human casualty will often earn the govt political backlash as human lives are sacrificed. But is the casualty is robots and weapons and drones, the price paid is just money, something that is definitely more tolerable, esp for an affluent country who can afford it. Human casualty, in contrast, is never too little, no matter how rich and populous the country is.


Qn: Examine the extent to which expenditure on arms and the armed forces is justifiable in the modern world. (Cam. 2014)