Base Motives
The war on terrorism is simply a euphemism for extending US control in the world, whether it is by projecting force through its carriers or building new military bases in central Asia.
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The USA is already unchallengeable in terms of military power. A further increase in its defence budget hardly seems necessary, when there’s room to redistribute resources from old-fashioned heavy divisions into special forces and new technology. There’s a danger that such overwhelming emphasis on military power will lead US policymakers to forget that persuasion is more effective than coercion.
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The rise in US military spending ought to be compared to the decision in the First World War to order up more cavalry when the first wave had been mown down by machine guns. The US has no competitor in high tech military equipment but this is mostly irrelevant against the knives used to carry out the September 11th attacks. The bombing of Afghanistan has created the illusion of victory, there may yet be a long drawn out guerilla war in central asia with the next opium crop the focus. Joint Strike Fighters and new artillery guns are at best irrelevant