• Taldan@lemmy.world
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      It’s almost certainly so connected people/comoanies can get lucrative contracts. I see no other reason for this

      SOP for a long time is private companies doing 99% of the operation, then a government employee presses the button to actually initiate the offensive action. There is no functional need for a change

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      5 hours ago

      Yeah because historically corporations have shown themselves to be super reluctant to use force, especially not when explicitly encouraged to by the government…