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Fire Department Effectiveness

How effective is the fire department? Do you measure it by the number of fires it puts out? If so, the people of the fire department will set fires, and then put them out. Similarly for bioweapons experts. How many bioattacks do they successfully counter? Measure them like this, and they will set an attack, and then counter it. In this case, though I believe the goal was to bring attention to bioweapons research.

Perhaps the military should be the same way. Measure the effectiveness of an army and its government by the number of wars that it wins? If so they will purposely set wars to show everyone how well it can win them. I read somewhere that the fire department is best rated by the number of fires it prevents. Maybe the military and government should be rated by the number of wars it prevents. But I don't see much war preventing except from places like "old Europe".