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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Re: Military Preparedness
Message-ID: <761@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 30-Sep-85 11:58:18 EDT
Article-I.D.: psivax.761
Posted: Mon Sep 30 11:58:18 1985
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References: <3690@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU>
Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
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In article <3690@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> josh@topaz.UUCP (J Storrs Hall) writes:
>
>What if the Army, Navy, and Air Force turn traitor?   *Who would
>stop them?*  Why do you think the other is any more likely?  You've
>completely disregarded the question of individual motivations--
>I believe people love, and will die for, their society, not their 
>State.  And would love it more if it were just and non-coercive.
>

	Well, there is nothing to stop *individual* members of the
armed forces from going over, but I do not believe that it is nearly
as likely that the whole organization will change sides as it is with
a "private" military. It is a matter of precieved primary loyalty and
motivation. The armed forces were *created* by the nation for the
purpose of defending the nation, and the authority of its leadership
comes from the natonal government, which has a vested interest in
successful defense. Also the hiring(recruitment) policy is oriented
towards loyalty to the nation. With a private organisation the origin
and reason for its existence would(under your system) be *profit*, and
the executive leadership would be responsible to the Board of
Directors, so the organizations principle loyalty would be to money,
not the nation and it could be bought out. Furthermore the hiring
policy would *Strongly* emphasize loyalty to the *organization* not to
Libertaria, so the rank and file would follow thier bosses and obey
orders even to betray allied organizations. This is basically a
variation on the reason why the police must be a public rather than a
private organization - it is called "conflict of interest".
-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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