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[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 0 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Regardless of what you call it, making the production of weapons an 'industry' is psychotic.

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[–] npdean@lemmy.today -5 points 2 days ago (40 children)

It is a war industry for the Western countries because the war is never on their soil. It is a defence industry for everyone else.

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[–] MajorasMaskForever@lemmy.world -1 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Someone who works in said US defense industry here

Neither defense nor war really apply to what we do, but between the two defense is the more apt description. The DoD largely uses a strategy of deterrence, where the technology we develop and training done for the "war fighter" is just public and visible enough that no other major country wants to take the risk of going into full open conflict with the US. Since most efforts go into deterrence, and deterrence is a defense strategy, it does become the more appropriate word.

Sure the US loves its proxy wars, but those don't throw the entire nation into wartime. Plus, in a round about way proxy wars help with the deterrence since we get an outlet for the decades old stock piles of arms that we no longer want and want to replace with the new stuff. If our waste products are being useful in places like Ukraine, it helps build up an idea of what it is we keep for ourselves, again building up a deterrence of openly and directly attacking the US

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