War Financing For Middle-Power Survival In The 21st Century.

The template here is the idea of Codevillas (speaking of Livy) of the early Romans being successful by making their wars BIG and SHORT.
How do we arrange our finances for such a contingency.
Well in the first place we have to have the most minimalist non-defense, non-security sector imagineable.
Then what we need is a series of [...]

…For it is written:”Go forth and steal their young maidens.”

From Catallaxy. In support of a rationally self-interested AND internationally ethical immigration policy:
“In response to Triguboff, Carr said 25 mill (I think.) Any more than needs a pretty powerful justification.”
No thats complete horseshit. There is no limit to the ABSOLUTE NUMBERS that we can have in this country. And there is no conflict whatsoever between [...]

Will America EVER win another war?

An American asked the question at Tigerdroppings and here is my general argument restated as my reply:
You are going to win this one for sure.
But if you pull out of Iraq without a strategy that ALLOWS you to pull out of Iraq….
(Cutting 1.5 trillion off federal non-defense spending and using one quarter of [...]