[orik]

The U.S. Military is universally good for society & humanity.

(Unless you're ISIS)

[pstuart]

Indeed! They've brought peace and stability to Iraq and Afghanistan, for example. /s

[linkregister]

To be fair, the responsibility overwhelmingly lies with the civilian leaders of the military.

[jessaustin]

If the tool never works how its users expect, it might be appropriate to blame the tool.

[nickik]

It might, but I think the US military is a great tool and does its actual job fantastically well. The only thing you can really blame them for is that they did not give a broad enough set of strategic options to civilians.

That said the civilian government usually gives them nonsensical task that they simply can not do.

[pstuart]

Sometimes the military does a great job on hiding their inefficiencies too: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/pentagon-burie...

[nickik]

Oh for sure. But relatively to other military they are quite good and even while they waste a lot they can mostly to their jobs. Other military are very expensive and very ineffective.

[linkregister]

The tactical blunders resulting in the loss of noncombatant life are only so widespread because of the civilian leadership's priorities. It's rarely the fault of any one servicemember.