I’m having a time hashing out some thoughts about American society and I figured I’d toss them out over here.

Namely, I’m starting to think that military adventurism is actually necessary and preferable to how things go in our country during peacetime, at least in the current era.

The problem is that when there isn’t an external enemy to fight, all of the people and resources who’d be off making foreigners miserable are turned towards controlling our domestic population.

We saw this with the winding down of the Global War on Terror, where the technology developed for the fights in places like Iraq were tinkered with and then sold to police departments and federal agencies.

At the same time, defense procurement gets far and bloated because rather than develop platforms designed to defeat a specific enemy, the Pentagon writes blank checks to contractors to build stuff that can defeat ANY enemy.

Similarly, it seems preferable to send the young men who yearn for adventure and to put their...