Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thanks Obama Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 20:53:52 -0800 Organization: Wheeler&Wheeler Lines: 45 Message-ID: <87egdcvokf.fsf@garlic.com> References: <2ua1nc-s8a.ln1@sambook.reistad.name> <20160119155418@news.eternal-september.org> <20160119222515@news.eternal-september.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="9a6c8ce24fcd2caeb84dd64e0fa6007c"; logging-data="29265"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19Z3Uw8Pc+YvKauxJWxJSOPkGux0zbRBS4=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:knAOy6+zIuP2FUbwRSwyl/Xd0+0= sha1:tm+z7SsmMYAm/MmN+7wDi9pA8Io= Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:157124 "James Green" <667755@gmail.com> writes: > No reason why they can't do the same thing now that the cold war is > over. One of the Boyd acolytes ... Boyd tribute he wrote for the Naval Institute proceedings ... but intro has some comments about funding hadn't been cut after cold war ended http://web.archive.org/web/20011224132049/http://www.infowar.com/iwftp/cspinney/c199.txt goes along with this "The Domestic Roots of Perpetual War" http://chuckspinney.blogspot.com/p/domestic-roots-of-perpetual-war.html for the Magazine of Exconomi Affairs and Pentagon Labyrinth http://chuckspinney.blogspot.com/p/pentagon-labyrinth.html This pamphlet aims to help newcomers and seasoned observers grapple with the problems of national defense. Intended especially for readers who are concerned about the superficial nature of the political debate on national security, this handbook assembles the insights of ten professionals, each with decades of experience in the armed services, the Pentagon bureaucracy, Congress, the intelligence community, military history, journalism and other disciplines. ... snip ... perpetual war posts http://www.garlic.com/~lnn/submisc.html#perpetual.war Iraq war was just part of the way of keeping the funding flowing into the military industrial complex ... and to add icing on the cake, this includes account how corporate representatives approached former eastern block countries and told them if they voted in the UN for the Iraq war, they could get membership in NATO and directed appropriation USAID to get modern (US) military gear (compatible & interoperable with NATO gear). http://www.amazon.com/Prophets-War-Lockheed-Military-Industrial-ebook/dp/B0047T86BA military industrial complex http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex Boyd URL and postings http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970