Thursday, January 07, 2010

Hm

I just watched the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff say on the Daily Show that the military was 40% smaller than it was in the Vietnam era. But our military budget has increased every year that I can remember. What gives?

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Less humans more hardware. I remember liking Manuel de Landa: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_the_Age_of_Intelligent_Machines although in truth reading stuff like that years after college makes me drool a little bit.

-- Jon Cooper

dallas taylor said...

i read that book, back in the day. don't remember a thing about it, though. wonder what happened to my copy?