The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives
The Military-Leisure Golf Complex
According to Nick Turse, in his new book "The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives," "Back in 1975, Senator William Proxmire (D-Wisconsin) decried the fact that the Department of Defense spent nearly $14 million each year to maintain and operate 300 military-run golf courses scattered across the globe. In 1996, the weekly television series America's Defense Monitor noted that 'Pentagon elites and high government officials [were still] tee-ing off at taxpayer expense' at some '234 golf courses maintained by the US armed forces worldwide.' In the intervening twenty-one years, despite a modest decrease in the number of military golf courses, not much had changed. The military was still out on the links. Today, the military claims to operate a mere 172 golf courses worldwide, suggesting that over thirty years after Proxmire's criticisms, a modicum of reform has taken place. Don't believe it."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041208F.shtml
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Nick+Turse
According to Nick Turse, in his new book "The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives," "Back in 1975, Senator William Proxmire (D-Wisconsin) decried the fact that the Department of Defense spent nearly $14 million each year to maintain and operate 300 military-run golf courses scattered across the globe. In 1996, the weekly television series America's Defense Monitor noted that 'Pentagon elites and high government officials [were still] tee-ing off at taxpayer expense' at some '234 golf courses maintained by the US armed forces worldwide.' In the intervening twenty-one years, despite a modest decrease in the number of military golf courses, not much had changed. The military was still out on the links. Today, the military claims to operate a mere 172 golf courses worldwide, suggesting that over thirty years after Proxmire's criticisms, a modicum of reform has taken place. Don't believe it."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041208F.shtml
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Nick+Turse
rudkla - 13. Apr, 08:33
