Breaking the Pentagon, by Karen Kwiatkowski

Notwithstanding its huge budget, which grows every year, the Pentagon is ever more weaker and unwieldy. From Karen Kwiatkowski at lewrockwell.com:

I’m cautiously pessimistic about the near-term survival of this institution, even as its coffers have surged.  As it actively seeks war in the Pacific, the Caribbean, the Arctic, the North Atlantic, with an energized expansion in the Middle East, the Pentagon brings to mind not American security, but rapid metastasis.

The tasks of the Pentagon are threefold: To expand and maintain markets for the dollar; to subsidize risk and eliminate competition for favored US industries; and to serve as a mechanism for government payment transfers to the citizens in all 435 congressional districts.

Despite its new moniker, the Pentagon isn’t about winning wars. From 1939 to 1941 the US ginned up and aided the British war effort, as it scaled back similar assistance to Germany. The end of the war – and those gratuitous nukes – signaled the United States as sole superpower, materially unwounded, in permanent search of new war markets. The Pentagon effectively was established to maintain and grow these markets – and not a single war has been won since.

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