Does anyone know if the US military has a rationale for their seemingly arbitrary exercises in vocabulary mutation?
Eg Overmatch, which according to the Wikipedia page "is a concept in modern military thinking", I would argue it would've been entirely familiar to G. Julius Caesar as dominātus, cognate to "Domination". Undoubtedly exactly the same concept existed (albeit impressed into clay) in sumerian military thinking.
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[ 690 ms ] story [ 498 ms ] threadEg Overmatch, which according to the Wikipedia page "is a concept in modern military thinking", I would argue it would've been entirely familiar to G. Julius Caesar as dominātus, cognate to "Domination". Undoubtedly exactly the same concept existed (albeit impressed into clay) in sumerian military thinking.
I actually think it is good to replace old, weird words with newer, better and more precise ones. As long as the new ones are better that is.
(Upon reflection, maybe it is more precise in that it flags "this is a specifically US military-industrial term of art"?)