[Ailist] Changing Military Perspective

[Cheri Torres]

Lionel,
Ah-ha, now I understand where you have been coming from and why it seemed to
me that we were not in the same conversation.

I have no intention of changing the military into anything, nor arguing for
it to change. Not sure what I said that may have suggested that. Perhaps
there was an assumption about my underlying belief system that led you to
think that.

I was merely commenting on how the military itself was changing a
perspective and that was in and of itself, shifting the possibilities for
how they "waged war".  I was holding up the military's new policies as an
example of shifting from focusing on what you don't want (want less of) to
what you want more of, which is very much an AI approach.

That was all.

Cheri

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Lionel Boxer <lionel.boxer at rmit.edu.au>wrote:

> Yes Cheri, I agree with you.  However, focusing on the military is not the
> solution to the equation.  The military does what it is told by the
> government; the military process remains constant (it is violent and has
> unpleasant consequences) and what varies is how it is applied.  The
> challenge is to never use the military (only a fool wants a war).  Canada
> was once (during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s) was very good at that.  During
> that period the government policy was for the military to train for war as a
> deterant to being invaded (of course Canada's security has more to do with
> being next door to the USA).
>
> My impression is that you want to change what the military into something
> that it is not.  If I am wrong about that please excuse my noise for the
> past few days.
>
> Lionel Boxer CD PhD MBA BTech(IndEng) - 0411267256
> Associate of RMIT University - lionel.boxer at rmit.edu.au
> Graduate School of Business
> my "Assessment of Quality Systems with Positioning Theory"
> now in a googe book - see link at http://intergon.net
> >>> Cheri Torres <cheri.torres at gmail.com> 30/06/09 11:15 PM >>>
> Lionel,
> For whatever reason, I sense that we are talking past one another.
>
> Are saying that we need a military to defend ourselves and play a role in
> some world situations and that political and economic gamesmanship by
> people
> in power gets us into wars that are not defense related?  If this is what
> you are saying, we have no argument.
>
> What do you think I am saying?
>
> Cheri
>
>


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Cheri B. Torres, Ph.D.

Asheville, NC
828-225-5088

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