Plenty of Music, but Not to Soothe a Savage Breast

22 July NY Times (Reading File) - Plenty of Music, but Not to Soothe a Savage Breast.

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David J. Kilcullen, writing in the State Department’s eJournal USA about the challenges for future wars:

At present, the U.S. defense budget accounts for approximately half of total global defense spending, while the U.S. armed forces employ about 1.68 million uniformed members. By comparison, the State Department employs about 6,000 foreign service officers, while the U.S. Agency for International Development has about 2,000. In other words, the Department of Defense is about 210 times larger than USAID and State combined — there are substantially more people employed as musicians in Defense bands than in the entire foreign service.

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