T. Hunt Tooley

An analysis of past US secretaries of war and defense gives us some insight into the nature of the relationships within the “military-industrial complex.”

The growth of the state through war included not only developing new technologies for making war, but also coming up with new financial techniques such as inflation and other wealth transfers to the government, which made the increasingly expensive wars possible.

 There are so many parts of the Revolution, so many stages, and so many protagonists, that we are sometimes confused as to how to interpret it. Historians tend to explain the Revolution according to their predilections, or even their heroes.