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maybe a declining population is not such a bad thing anyway:

er, just for the record, i'm not advocating that. just pointing out that world powers in classical times (and more recently too, of course) saw it as an option, but modern democracies do not.

i agree with you about greater lethality pushing lesser-equipped forces off the battlefield. but still, i think a lot of insurgencies around today could probably be ended once and for all simply by complete extermination of the surrounding population, friend and foe alike. sort of like what the...

maybe i should have posted the full review, instead of just the link and intro. but brecher (aka war nerd) does go on to raise some interesting points, especially as to why the whole ancient greek parallel with modern warfare is a bit of a stretch. such as:

Haven't read VDH (though i might, as i hear his earlier stuff is pretty good), but the American Conservative has an interesting review on his latest: http://www.amconmag.com/2005/2005_12_19/review1.html incidentally, the reviewer, Gary Brecher, writes a column about warfare under the name of...

yes, i do recall that many activist and ngo types were against using a market mechanism, for the usual ideological reasons. but nevertheless, kyoto is the only market solution out there -- that's why the US originally went along with it in the first place. washington's latest idea of...

those aren't greenhouse gases. in fact they would probably even have the opposite effect. but CO2 and methane are. anyway, i have yet to see a single objection to the idea of manmade global warming that hasn't been comprehensively debunked by this group of actual climate scientists...

as someone who's always been willing to put up with a certain amount of red tape to do neat things like own a gun or fly a plane, etc, i must say this latest news really pisses me off. more to the point, were i inclined to disobey the law, i would be real reluctant right now about actually...

The problem is, you can't make money selling that kind of insurance unless you have a "captive" market. the people most willing to buy health insurance are not the ones you want to be selling it to. so it's only a viable business proposition if you sell it to people under mandatory coverage...

a higher cost is a higher cost. someone pays for it.

you've got it exactly backwards, actually. the us has the MOST expensive health care system as a % of GDP, in the industrialised world. mostly because of the inherent inefficiencies of the private health insurance market. not to deny the us's competitive advantages, but that is definitely not...

could the fifth war be the somalia mission? i thought i read in Significant Incident by Bercuson that it was sent under the exact same type of UN mandate that was used for korea.

i do recall a rather silly documentary about the incident that the cbc ran a couple years later. it included an interview with a person who said the army tried to "gas" her. she even showed a photo she took as evidence of the "poison gas bomb" -- which looked suspiciously like a used paraflare...

not that silly. here is the mission statement of the dept of homeland security:

it's not my industry, and i don't know the details of how stumpage fees are actually set, but the NAFTA dispute resoution panel did find that canada did not dump in this case. in fact, the us lumber industry is now fighting the ruling on the grounds of the constitionality of the NAFTA process...

actually, the case for supply-side remedies is far from proven. in fact, according to this column that popped up on the bloombox the other day, the evidence is a lot less convincing than advertised:

does that mean having an army is not "worth doing" then?

I'm not so sure it matters whether the US fits the definition of an "empire" or not. it's kind of an apple-and-oranges comparison, and i don't think there really is a meaningful historical precedent to the US's place in the world. the brits had a vast pool of unwilling subjects, and it cost them...

is that so? you claim ontario's ENTIRE advantage is a slack labour market while the US has full employment. but that seems not to be the case -- especially in manufacturing. meanwhile, i am still waiting to see a convincing argument -- or any argument at all, in fact -- for the following...

here's another bucket of cold water for that reductionist pet theory of yours: of course, it's the BBC presenting these facts, so they must be lies, all lies...