Wikileaks + US diplomacy = biggest "diplomatic" storm ever incoming !

[sapphi_snake]

Soleron said:

No power would risk economic instability by an armed invasion of another, just like with nukes now. Violence in less developed countries would continue the same. Terrorism would continue the same; intelligence didn't help much to mitigate it and the amount of resources spent combating it produced a tiny effect compared to spending that money on road safety or stopping smoking.

Each country would keep a small militia (National Guard like) for civil issues and natural disasters, but they wouldn't operate abroad.

And we'd save a ton of money. All the defence companies could go too.

The major difference would be that we'd probably lose the Falkland Islands to Argentina, and Afghanistan would go back to being lawless. I think it's worth it.

 

That's exactly why the army in countries that have sych a thing will never be shut down. Defence companies have too great financial interest to allow this to happen and they obviusly have great influence in the Governments. This is also a reason why there are so many pointless conflicts: to justify military spending.

Not to mention that people working in the army probably have no interest in the army being shut down, as that would mena they'd be out of a job.