[Marxism] defense is the best offense????

[Les Schaffer <schaffer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

i was going to post some snippets from a long interview posted at MIT's
Technology Review web site. then i realized it might be open access. the
interview discusses the US military budget, some interesting (if true)
insights into Reagan's expansion of the budget, Chinese naval
operations, arms race in space and some new technologies coming along on
a parallel track, and most interestingly, insights into the Iraqi
insurgency, quantum computing, and the Web. all from the imperialist
perspective, of course:


    Thursday, March 23, 2006
    Technology and the Future of Warfare

    Author and Pentagon advisor John Arquilla believes that today's big
    weapons systems are wrong for modern battle.

    By Mark Williams

    In 2007, the Pentagon's budget will exceed the combined military
    spending of every other country in the world. In round numbers,
    according to the U.S. Department of Defense's own Quadrennial
    Defense Review (QDR), published this past February, the American
    military will spend more than $440 billion next year, supplemented
    with another $120 billion for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

    http://www.technologyreview.com/BizTech-R&D/wtr_16620,295,p1.html


les schaffer

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