Racing to become a war economy is more part of the American dream than the Australian. Beware of what you dream of look where it has led the USA. If America counts all its affiliated military businesses it’s economically bigger than all the world’s other 9 biggest war economies combined. Almost bigger than the world’s total economies exporting war machinery. Our ALP government’s aspiration is to join the top tier of the world’s madness

The Australian economy is increasingly becoming a war economy. The PM talks of the economic benefits of weapons manufacture, and of how the military and a growing military-industrial-complex is almost a job creation scheme. The media works diligently to build and sustain a sense of fear. But even so, the warmongers of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) and their stablemate, Strategic Analysis Australia (SAA) are not satisfied.

Source: ASPI’s call for a militia – a step to military madness – Pearls and Irritations