The point of a company is to deliver shareholder value, but if boeing says the purpose of the company to sell planes, nobody is going to object.
>Notice all the rules around PoWs
I specifically acknowledged this in my prior comment
>how the most common role militaries play is deterrence.
"deterrence" goes out the window when you start a hot war.
You should have read the article more closely.
Hegseth describes the war in Iran very differently. At a news conference last week, he said it would have “no stupid rules of engagement.” In another, he said that the U.S. military would shower “death and destruction from the sky all day long.”
Today’s campaign isn’t about enduring freedom. It’s called Operation Epic Fury. “Maximum lethality, not tepid legality,” Hegseth said earlier this year. “Violent effect, not politically correct.”
What part of this language leads you to believe he's only talking about combatant deaths?