The Military Needs More Money
October 30, 2014
The military blames budget “cuts” in June for a “friendly fire” airstrike that killed five American soldiers in Afghanistan. The “cuts” supposedly affected training. If there is one agency of the federal government that doesn’t need any more money it is the military since most of the budget is spent on offense instead of defense.
And here is another reason not to join the military: You might accidentally get killed by other American soldiers.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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