What would happen if America privatized its military?

Originally posted by bekod
reply to post by ColCurious

 

no there is no conspiracy or a" what if" it is what it is real.

Well, there is a conspiracy against us allright.
It's just not a theory... it's fact.
True, it's not a 100% privatized yet, but it's a growing trend and a threat IMO.

I agree wholeheartedly with the rest of your post though. Good assessment.

It would be a robotic army because they're not going to want to pay the health insurance premium due to a soldier. they would only hire SMEs to tell the robots where to go.

Originally posted by gladtobehere
reply to post by Merinda

 

Has there ever been a case when government was more efficient than private industry?

Politicians have perfected waste and mismanagement, which should be expected when there are no consequences.

A private company may actually go out of business so they have an incentive to act prudently.

Unless of-course youre a bank or some other giant enterprise. You can still take risks, go bankrupt and have the government bail you out.

Regardless, its a moot point. One of the few powers that the Constitution grants the federal government is a standing army, not a global empire, which is what we have.

edit on 11-12-2012 by gladtobehere because: (no reason given)

Define efficient. If you are talking monies, then I am sure a private military company would be more efficient in just spending the absoulte necessarry to keep the buisness going, expanding and running a profit. Of course that would mean more soldiers get wounded or killed, because keeping friendly casualities as low as possible is not a priority anymore. Profits are the priority.

Same for insurance companies, with the nature of the buisness pooling money and paying it out as needed, when profits are the objective you need to pool in the money for dividends and hefty CEO salaries too. If they are not, you need only to pool the money that is necessarry to run the buisness, pay out what is needed to take care of those who have a claim, build a reasonable reserve and after that, break even not run a profit.

My point is, there are many scenarios where capitalism does work and work well, but depending on what the goal of an operation is, there are cases where it is counterproductive to say the least. The right tool for the job.

That was why they called the next phase of the future soldier "Objective Force Warrior"as the number of combat boots get reduced they will all soon be elite troops only.
If they go private attrcities will be performed and gotten away with because of lawyers who will be employed to cover this sort of thing.
The current military operates under UCMJ instead of Constitutional law.Such laws will not be followed by a corporate body.