Abstract

Defense in a Vacuum

This article presents information about the book "Our Military Chaos," by Oswald Garrison Villard. In this book Mr. Villard deals with the problem of the increasing militarism of the U.S. The U.S. army has ships and the navy has land forces. The army has planes for defense beyond the boundaries of the U.S. and navy has land bases from which its planes take off. Mr. Villard points out that up until 1938 the American army was spending on horses, mules and harness as much as it was spending on tanks, arms and armed vehicles. Mr. Villard says many true things about the probable waste of appropriations and about the inevitable tendency toward fascist control which comes when civilian effort is directed to a greater and greater degree into military channels.