Tackling the War Machine

By Walt Nygard  

The Pentagon's Achille's Heel: U.S. War - Profitable But Unwinnable, Sara Flounders' valuable primer on "the converging crises of the capitalist system and it's military," is an important source book for any activist looking to be re-charged in these days of numbing American totalitarianism.

Ms. Flounders does not shrink from the ominous danger our government has created around the world. In a relentless series of essays, she exposes a military budget that when expenditures hidden outside the Defense Department are factored in - military pensions, Treasury Department; nuclear weapons, Energy Department; financing foreign arms sales, State Department - exceeds $1 trillion a year.

The environmental assault on the entire planet by the U.S. military, the insidious subversion of the Bill of Rights under the National Defense Authorization Act and the disgraceful neglect by our government of the American worker, his/her family, educational, social and artistic institutions and the infrastructure that holds it all together are but a few of the topics of these essays.

While daunting in it's immensity, the struggle against American totalitarianism has reason for optimism and renewal of effort. Ms. Flounders insightful comparison of WikiLeaks and the invention of the printing press provides a historical context for those who would work for social change, liberation or revolution. "New forms of technology are inherently destabilizing to the established order," she declares, and her "small book aims at mobilizing the forces that can stop the war machine."

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Walt Nygard is Vice President of VFP Chapter 21. He served in the US Marines in Vietnam.