Post by Robert L. Rauch
World Flying Disc Federation President. Pursuing a PhD at Deutsche Sporthochschule Köln. Available for consulting positions or to serve on corporate boards. Board member of IWGA, ARISF, and FISpT.
Putting on my political economy hat for a moment. “Making a Career in Dictatorship,” a new book by two German political scientists, Adam Scharpf and Christian Glassel, is an in-depth study of Argentina’s military during that country’s era of coups and forced disappearances found that low performers filled the ranks of the secret police. That service allowed them to “detour” around the ordinary military hierarchy, achieving promotions and career success they could never have managed otherwise. They conclude that the planned expansion of ICE could make it an ideal venue for detouring by ambitious underperformers who could be deployed for anti-democratic purposes.
