Tuesday, February 08, 2011
Industrial Ideology
In the current issue of Challenge Magazine, retired Department of Defense analyst Franklin Spinney examines The Domestic Roots of Perpetual War. As a 33-year insider at the Pentagon, Spinney witnessed the evolution of America's war-centric foreign policy and the corrosive influence of warped financial incentives fundamental to the Military-Industrial-Congress-Complex belief system. The "grotesque diversion of scarce resources to a bloated defense budget that is leading the United States into ruin", says Spinney, "distorts and debases our economy, our politics, our schools and our media."
