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This is not entirely true as the chart on page four of his book indicates. Military spending today in constant dollars is at the same level as the years of peace since Korea (1954-1978). During this time, GNP has doubled in real terms, and non-military expenditures has tripled (even excluding huge increases in transfer payments). In other words, we spend as much on defense now as in 1954, even though we have twice as much to spend...
What in the world can he find to be hopeful about? As it turns out, almost everything. Most simply, Thomas argues that the overwhelming tendency in nature is toward symbiosis, union, harmony. The post-Darwinian view of life as a constant, murderous struggle, Tennyson's personification of nature "red in tooth and claw," do not match the facts that Thomas has seen. Even what looks like random slaughter may be the opposite...
Except under the best of conditions, anyone traveling the $91 million highway will be roughing it. In winter, the road will be untenable without constant snow removal; in spring, it will be a morass of mud. Only in summer and fall will passage be relatively easy without four-wheel drive. Nor does the highway offer much in the way of roadside facilities. The Yukon government has established two maintenance posts at miles 41 and 123, and at mile 231 the privately owned Eagle Plains Hotel stands as a kind of halfway house. Other than two Indian villages, there...
...examining military spending in longer term perspective, namely since World War I, affords a different interpretation. The current budget is higher than any other period of U..S. history excepting World War II, which approached $300 billion yearly (in constant 1978 dollars) and Vietnam which peaked at about $170 billion (in 1978 dollars). It is higher now than during the Korean War and the past fifty years of relative peace. We are on a rising slope of military spending, with official projections of $178 billion...
...tendency to turn the agency into a kind of wire service to provide hour-by-hour commentary. This cuts down man-hours that should be available for the long-range analysis that may help a President prevent a crisis in the first place. The CIA fights a constant, often losing battle to protect the continuity of its basic research...