All Posts Tagged With: "u.s. military"
Legal Plunder Mislabeled “Defense”
Arnaud de Borchgrave of United Press International has been reporting on national intelligence matters for many years. In a recent dispatch he wrote that “[s]ome 15,300 earmarks in the U.S. defense budget, up 1,300 percent in the 21st century, are so many pork projects for lawmakers’ constituencies that have nothing to do with defense.” That [...]
1May2006 | Sheldon Richman | 1 comment | ContinuedBook Reviews – April 2004
America the Virtuous: The Crisis of Democracy and the Quest for Empire by Claes G. Ryn Transaction Publishers • 2003 • 221 pages • $34.95 Reviewed by Richard Ebeling In 1988 Robert Nisbet, one of America’s most prominent sociologists and conservative social philosophers, published The Present Age: Progress and Anarchy in Modern America. He critically [...]
1Apr2004 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedBlurring the Civilian-Military Line
Gene Healy is senior editor at the Cato Institute. The soldier’s mission, as soldiers often phrase it, is “killing people and breaking things,” and they’re trained accordingly. In contrast, police officers, ideally, are trained to operate in an environment where constitutional rights apply and to use force only as a last resort. Accordingly, Americans going [...]
1Feb2003 | Gene Healy | 3 comments | ContinuedAmerica in East Asia
Doug Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books, including Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World. The Cold War ended a decade ago, but America’s defense posture has changed little, especially in East Asia. Washington policymakers seem determined [...]
1May2000 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | Continued-
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