Image via Wikipedia An alarming letter from a physicist of great renown, slamming the professional ethic of his peers and their professional organization. he asserts that, just as the military-industrial complex has perverted common sense notions of appropriate defense programs, so to has the research grant gravy train perverted notions of a pure scholarly approach […]
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The business of war
Image via Wikipedia A crucial part of force generation is developing, maintaining and supporting industrial base capacity to research, develop, produce and perform life cycle maintenance on crucial equipment. The Defense Business Board just made a series of recommendations on how to approach this issue. Examine the composition of the board and try to predict […]
a war economy as far as the eye can see
Image via Wikipedia I worry about us painting ourselves into a corner. I think we have gone past the tipping point where the military industrial complex lobbyists dominate the political process. What do we make besides war and the tools, supplies, services and movies of war? Related articles by Zemanta Are Progressives Entirely Useless? (lewrockwell.com) […]
The cost of the military industrial complex
I was reviewing an article by Jim Quinn at the most excellent blog “Seeking Alpha”, wherein he laid a fiscally conservative response to the apparent profligfate spending associated with international adventurism initiated by the neo-cons in the Bush Administration. Jim’s article prompted the following thoughts. full article at this link The concepts of opportunity cost, […]