Oolite Bulletins

How many people could be fed, clothed and housed with the money used to develop this first-strike weapons system? You know, the average citizen joe blow from indiana and joe dirt from Iran really don't want to kill each other. In the end, governments will go broke and collapse from their own reckless spending.

I definitely think that we should return to the old-style of war: the people that -want- the war, should be in the frontlines, and not cowering like curs in a massive bunker half-way around the world pushing buttons.

Would certainly reduce the level of madness a bit.

Micha wrote:

I definitely think that we should return to the old-style of war: the people that -want- the war, should be in the frontlines, and not cowering like curs in a massive bunker half-way around the world pushing buttons.

...only remember that in RL, there's absolutely no way whatsoever you'll ever get a CEO anywhere near a real front line (vice-presidents and lesser executives will do perfectly, and if they're blown up, well, they'd better have signed the company's insurance policy).
And, although warrior-kings did exist, they were never the norm.