In good economic times and bad, there’s always money for war. A view from America by Mark Engler.
In good economic times and bad, there’s always money for war.
Recently, political analyst Paul Waldman made a list of US military actions since 1964. Excluding proxy wars, drone strikes and covert operations, he nevertheless counted 15 significant, direct interventions since 1964. That comes, roughly, to one every three and a half years.
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