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Dirk Bruere wrote:<br>
<blockquote cite="mid42A9F6BC.6010100@neopax.com" type="cite">Lifespan
Pharma Inc. wrote:
<br>
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">What I mean is to delineate the point of
diminishing returns at which
<br>
testing out technology by military enterprises no longer serves the
purpose
<br>
of yielding information from which to make more durable or efficient
<br>
or yield improved technological innovations.
<br>
<br>
Putting AK47's and and landmines cannot possibly yield much towards an
improved human condition.
<br>
Putting up a GPS satellite network does improve the human condition in
measureable ways.
<br>
<br>
One could begin to classify global military activity into a spectrum
and rate the
<br>
societal or other benefits, short, medium and long term of these
activities.
<br>
<br>
This like QALY ratings for medical intervention economics might yield
a cost/benefit
<br>
system for military activity economics.
<br>
<br>
This might allow rationalization of global military economics.
<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
The problem is that actually deploying weapons has no economic benefit
whatsoever - just the reverse.
<br>
If, say, the military obsession was replaced by a space colonisation
obsession I think we would see all the benefits we currently get from
military spending plus a 'deployment benefit' of vast magnitude.
<br>
<br>
</blockquote>
To date the "deployment benefit" might be justified in the creation
of a globalization of economics and<br>
social structures but what I suggest is that it should be quantified
as to the exact costing of this exercise.<br>
<br>
Just like a QALY (Quality Adjusted Life Year) of say $1,000,000
being unjustifyable in most cases by a public healthcare system a
similar QAMTE (Quality Adjusted Military Technology Event) should seek
to measure the cost VS the<br>
measureable impacts.<br>
<br>
One could do historical practice case studies such as "WW2", 'The
Berlin Wall" , "The formation of the EU" or "Iraq invasion"<br>
to get a feel for the methodology, then apply the model to current and
future "Military Technology Business Cases". <br>
<br>
MFJ<br>
<br>
<br>
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