Operation Overlord
On this day in 1944, Operation Overlord, code named D-Day, occurred--the Allied invasion of northern France. The memorials of this world-changing event are getting smaller.The business of fighting a war is probably not best done as an individual effort. Nor as a startup. Indeed, the very notion of democracy is probably antithetical to war. War demands structure, forced sacrifice of individuals, obedience, and the centralization of decision-making. After the decision-making has been handed off in a democratic manner it's time for the state to get on with it. But the process of democracy has nothing magic about it; it is a defensive system aiming at minimizing the damage to the citizen. In war, that's gone.
D-Day was the beginning of the end. The democracies organized, rose up, and destroyed two totalitarian princes of darkness However, the success of power in war, the success of the militarized state, gives the state undue credit. In every war, one militarized system loses.
D-Day was the beginning of the end. The democracies organized, rose up, and destroyed two totalitarian princes of darkness However, the success of power in war, the success of the militarized state, gives the state undue credit. In every war, one militarized system loses.
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