Category Archives: militaria

in search of monsters to destroy

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 April 24 by Anton

Way the heck back in November one Jim Henley, of whose blog I have just now become aware, made a very interesting point about foreign intervention: And out of the preceding ingredients the final, general case against “humanitarian intervention” arises … Continue reading →

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the state is not the nation

Posted on Friday, 2002 March 08 by Anton

A quibble or two with James Lileks (skip down to “Warning: the following is Screedy”): Well, don’t START A WAR WITH AMERICA, then. Well, y’know, most of the bombees at Hiroshima didn’t. Is it overly pedantic to distinguish between the … Continue reading →

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guns, butter

Posted on Thursday, 2002 February 21 by Anton

Steve White scores a good one: Can someone explain to us why we expect the military budget to scale linearly with the GDP? Isn’t it the whole idea of a federal government that it will scale sub-linearly? Are we just … Continue reading →

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