History has proven Eisenhower’s 
thoughts on the Military/Industrial Complex tragically prophetic, but seeing a dragon isn’t the same as slaying it. The M/IC has grown and thrives for real reasons and it won’t go away just because the majority of Americans (and the world) don’t benefit from it. Why did it form, what sustains it now, and what could possibly make it change? Danny Quintana believes the pigs swarmed the trough because it was full, and while starving them won’t work maybe putting their food in a different trough will…
“Space and Ocean Exploration: The Alternative to the Military Industrial Complex” by Danny Quintana
The central premise of Danny Quintana’s latest book is making the case to divert an ever-increasing slice of the United States Defense Budget to Space and Ocean Exploration. He methodically shows that pursuing such a course would be politically and economically palatable as the industries involved would continue to have a role in the defense establishment and the military would receive additional equipment and mandates.”
While we typically direct you to the Powell’s website for our book recommendations, this month we’ll send you to Danny’s own website for his book. Not just because Powell’s doesn’t have it (though Amazon does) but because all proceeds from the book go to provide wheelchairs for people injured in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, so we want him to have the fullest value from each sale.
Click here for Eisenhower’s Military-Industrial Complex speech as well as some analysis from NPR in “Ike’s Warning Of Military Expansion, 50 Years Later”
How the “Global High Seas Marine Preserve” came from Danny Quintana’s book, YouTube video, Oct 2016
Danny Quintana at Weller Book Works signing, YouTube video, Nov 2015
