CDR: Re: And you thought Nazi agitprop was controversial?

At 11:45 PM 9/16/00 -0400, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:

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The military is currently cannibalizing everything it can to keep as many units as it possibly can active.

If less of the 'defense' budget ended up spent on barracks that serve no military purpose, planes that the Pentagon don't want and gold plated research projects, there would be no problem.

Actually, as we drift typically off-topic, I thought the main problem was the curse of a booming economy -- no one needs to join the military just because they're hiring. We no longer have a literal army of the desperate to feed into the military machine.