The Pentagon has had its collective head up its power-projecting posterior since the end of WWII. I don’t (realistically) see an end to this idiocy any time soon. bomb gun firearm steak knife Allah Aryan airline hijack
Hey, John — Glad to see you here! There’s one of your fellow jarheads living in Santa Fe that you’ve just gotta meet one of these days — maybe at next year’s LP State Convention . . . ?
via Scott Bieser
While the armed forces comprise 56 percent of discretionary spending, they only make up about 25 percent of the total budget —
I agree that American forces are overly used abroad — Iraq and the “AfPak” theater are just the biggest examples. The predominate doctrine in “defense” circles these days revolves around the “power projection” concept —
the capacity of a state to conduct expeditionary warfare, i.e. to intimidate other nations and implement policy by means of force, or the threat thereof, in an area distant from its own territory.
Day: June 19, 2010
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Random Commentary for 18 June 2010
- I posted a comment to John Ennis’ profile page on newmexicoliberty.com —
- I like the line Scott added to this one — “Apocalypse no.”
- Just watched the video titled Collateral Murder about the 12 July 2007 airstrike in Baghdad
- Re: Tom Mullins — Landmines on the (U.S.—Mexican) Border
- I posted a comment to John Ennis’ profile page on newmexicoliberty.com —
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