‘The UK Ministry of Defence is worried; worried that the public have become ‘risk averse’ to the point that we won’t want to go to war anymore; so worried that in November 2012 they wrote a report – The Implications of Current Attitudes to Risk for the Joint Operational Concept – made public today by the Guardian. The report, while purportedly studying ‘risk’, is really asking ‘How do we sell war to the public’? It starts with the statement that there is a “common accusation that the MoD and the Armed Forces are becoming increasingly risk averse”. This aversion is apparently seen as a weakness in Government policy and a limitation on military thinking.’
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