America's Oldest Professions: Warring and Spying

This book is about the warring and spying habits of America’s regimes; the long history of those habits, what explains them, what their consequences are, how they can be broken, and what awaits America and the world if they are not broken.
Chapter1 traces the unbroken history of the two habits. Chapter 2 documents their costs and consequences. It is an appalling account of the damage and death America’s warriors-in-chiefs and spy chiefs have unceasingly caused America and elsewhere on the globe. Chapter 3 explains the two habits. You will read there about the “black boxes” and “badvantages” that explain the dark side of human behavior in general and the warring and spying habits of the current U.S. president and his predecessor in particular. Chapter 4 examines the war and spy bureaucracy of the U.S. government. There we will look into the public officialdom of the two habits, The Land of the Official Habbits, if you will, with apologies to J.R.R Tolkien. Chapter 5 examines the war and spy industries that feed off government’s addiction as .well as their own. You will read there how contractors go about milking Uncle Sam, and how Uncle Sam, the reliable cash cow, knows and doesn’t care. Chapter 6 takes a look at the “Habit Helpers.” You might be surprised about who some of them are. I was once one of them. Chapter 7 proposes a seven-step program for ending America’s warring and spying. The last chapter presents some dismal scenarios of the future if the habits are not ended. Be sure not to miss Appendix A, especially if you believe there can be a just or necessary war. Appendix B shows the bloated organizational chart for the war and spy agencies, and Appendix C names the largest war and spy contractors.