During the recent Iran–Israel war, the US used up to 20% of its global stockpile of Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) ballistic missile interceptors, each costing over $18 million. THAAD isn't effective against hypersonic missiles, which both Iran and even Yemen's Houthis now possess.
War, in the long run, is a matter of economics. If you can't afford to fight a war, you'll lose the war. Missiles are now the preferred weapon for taking out enemy targets, and the only effective counter is anti-missile missiles. The problem is that both are brutally expensive. Can the costs be kept down, so war is more… affordable?
Generals, politicians, and "defense" contractors, however, love expensive high-tech toys. But if you're going to afford a war, the most cost-effective weapon is an ignorant teenage boy—something the Third World, especially the Muslim world, is awash in. They're cheap and stealthy delivery systems, far more effective than multi-million-dollar missiles. There's an endless supply of them, and they can be employed in a myriad of ways. From an economic point of view, it makes no sense for technologically advanced countries (like the US) to use ultra-expensive weapons to attack primitive countries, as we've done for the last 75 years.
Regardless of the weapons used, the thing to remember is that war amounts to setting wealth on fire. Missiles are about taking real goods, manufactured at great expense, and using them to blow up other real wealth; there can be a perverse logic to it. However, despite their rhetoric to the contrary, I'm not sure governments are too concerned about lots of young men dying. A surplus of unemployed young males is destabilizing, especially in poor countries.
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El ethos es el conjunto de rasgos y comportamientos relacionados con el carácter o identidad de un individuo o grupo. La Real Academia Española (RAE) lo define, entre otras cosas, como “costumbre, hábito; modos de ser, pensar o sentir; o como conducta, carácter, temperamento y moral”. El ethos es la clave para entender la ética y la moral individual o colectiva.
Víctor Davis Hanson, inició su enseñanza de la historia clásica con un curso de introducción a las Humanidades en la Universidad Estatal de California en 1984. Sus modelos eran La Ilíada y 
The controversy that President Trump is provoking with his statements proclaiming that he will take possession of Greenland is a monumental blunder that places the United States in direct rivalry with its NATO allies. It demonstrates a profound diplomatic incapacity in its approach to an issue that should have been handled in private meetings, leading to a mutually beneficial and mutually acceptable agreement for both parties.
Based on his critical analysis of the evolution of criminal power in Venezuela, Fleischman exposes the deep symbiosis between the state, the military, and powerful criminal networks, as well as the decisive role of the Orinoco Mining Arc, the Cartel of the Suns, and alliances with armed groups such as the National Liberation Army (ELN) and dissident factions of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). His assessment paints a picture of a fully consolidated narco-state, whose criminal operations not only sustain the regime but also pose a direct threat to the stability and security of the entire region.
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