We had an incident at our test facility

Which test facility would this be?

A representative from the American military began to make noise about the intellectual propriety of neural wave technology

The American military works for us. In theory, it would belong to the American people. But that's a joke.


One of our guys

Who is "our" here?


protecting private investors from competition

Old as the hills. Where is his bread buttered?


some of the major investors in American military industries are not citizens of the US.

True. Allies, supposedly, but this is not new news either.


Pentagonian personnel value the property rights of non-American investors

In what tangible way?


Eisenhower's warning about the military-industrial monster was on target.




What would you suggest as a solution to the thuggish brutality of the Pentagon?

Transparent governance.


Do military investors deserve to profit from the hard work of civilian entrepreneurs?

Are they patriots first or capitalists first? To which does their loyalty lie?


Were the founding padres on target when they said that a standing army is a threat to liberty?

We still have nukes ready to fly. I wonder what the answer to this question will be after we've let them go?