"A fourth step—ultimately the most fundamental and paradigm-shattering, as well as the least likely..."

“A fourth step—ultimately the most fundamental and paradigm-shattering, as well as the least likely to occur—would be to reconsider the very purpose and function of the military and to reorient it accordingly. That would mean transforming a cumbersome, stagnant, obsolescent, irrelevant war fighting force—with its own inbuilt self-corrupting qualities—into a peacekeeping, nation-building, humanitarian-assistance, disaster-response force far more attuned to a future it helps shape and far more strategically effective than what we now have. Translated, counterintuitive as it might sound, this would mean seeking to demilitarize the military, an overarching strategic imperative if bona fide lasting peace is ever to be achieved on this planet.”

- The Case for Demilitarizing the Military | The Nation (via othemts)

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