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You mean like this?United States Marine Corps Major General and two time Medal of Honor recipient Smedley D. Butler frankly discusses his experience as a career military officer and how business interests commercially benefit from warfare:"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small 'inside' group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes."
Army: Troops to be ready for Africa missions - Washington Times
More than 3,000 soldiers will begin supporting missions in Africa next year as part of a new reorganization plan that deploys troops quickly to regional hot spots, Army officials say.
Called the "regional alignment concept," the plan makes Army brigade combat teams available to a regional commander for up to a year. It will be tested in March with the 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team 1st Infantry Division.
So much for the War Powers Act.
We may end up in the SCOTUS over this one too.
Nope, we can't afford any more Kagans or "wise Latina women" on the court.