Summary: Today Martin van Creveld looks at one of the most exceptional aspects of US defense policy, our weapons. A naïf would describe it as quite mad, unaware of the lavish salaries and great corporate fortunes created by tapping the almost limitless flow of taxes from the apathetic and credulous citizens of America.
“In the year 2054, the entire defense budget will purchase just one aircraft. This aircraft will have to be shared by the Air Force and Navy 3-1/2 days each per week except for leap year, when it will be made available to the Marines for the extra day.
— One of Augustine’s Laws.
“White Elephants”
By Martin van Creveld
From his website, 28 April 2016
Posted with his generous permission
At least since 9/11, and possibly since the First Gulf War back in 1991, it has been clear that the most immediate threat facing…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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