U.S. Stealth Fighter Pilot Raises Questions About F-35 and F-22 Purchase – Cost Is Too High

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4. It could lead to some kind of global disarmament.

Fewer and fewer soldiers and war-machines. But, as the war in Afghanistan, showed again, you still need massive amounts of those if you want to win a war of aggression.

What are Master-Chiefs and Space-Marines and Battle-Mechs good for, when you can only build and maintain so many of them, because they are too expensive? Defense and deterrence.

If everybody agrees to phase out their military for a small high-tech-army, then, at one point, the armies will be too small to actually WIN a war. ("Damnit, we need more cannon-fodder!&quot
As Napoleon said, war is about controlling time and space. Well, Afghanistan has too much space to be controlled and having a smaller army will only make war less desirable.