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Together, credo and trinity … our purpose

…leadership as prescribed by the credo obliges the United States to maintain military capabilities staggeringly in excess of those required for self-defense.” The philosophy that sustains the Military Industrial Complex,…

WW II CIVILIAN REAL GDP

…looked at the data and found it somewhat surprising. The surprise was not in what happened to military spending as the military swung from 0.5 million personnel in 1940 to…

TBI is a financial thingee?

…a fresh round of tests, all part of a broad effort by the military to better treat head injuries. The Department of Defense is also deploying some unusual weapons for…

What was the Nexus?

…able to use or threaten to use weapons of mass destruction. In the near term, this means a willingness to undertake military action as diplomacy is clearly failing. In the…

Full price of oil

Tom Dispatch has an opinion piece on something we have not really considered. The US military has a huge appetite for oil and products. We have not quantified this on…

US centric viewpoints about hegemony

…electricity minister said Tuesday. Word of the project prompted serious concerns among American military officials, who fear that Iranian commercial investments can mask military activities at a time of heightened…

…will be leaving for Iraq in February or March, where the troops will function as military police. The military police function is still extremely needed and valuable in Iraq. However…