Defence spending seems a waste of money on costly foreign-made kit.
This hypothesis could help explain the very high rate of suicide among these veterans, compared with other, more lawfully prosecuted wars fought before we abandoned the Geneva Conventions, and before torture and illegal detention were part of America's foreign occupation tool kit.
Here, near Nanjing in Jiangsu province, BASF is building China's most modern integrated petrochemical complex, the first to be partly funded by foreign money and kitted out with foreign technology.
Instead of Russia and China, we should be focussed mainly on "terrorist networks intent on repelling or disrupting the forces of globalization, potential pandemic disease like avian flu, or catastrophic changes in the earth's climate," and the way to make headway there is by bringing together multinational coalitions and adding new elements to the traditional foreign-policy tool kit.
The PowerPoint slides state that the officer was embedded in the UK delegation of 38 people because this cover would allow access to foreign delegations and to "kit, passes, and delegate lists".
Things then went quiet, with water cannon making the news only when it wasthey were brought on to the streets overseas, or British firms sold the requisite kit to foreign governments.
A systems engineering model has been developed for the global petrochemical industry, named FREAK (FoReign trade Effect Assessment Kit).
The range and complexity of what is procured is vast, ranging from first aid kits to foreign aid programmes to office chairs to tilting trains, making for a varied and interesting career.
No one promised that every foreign stadium would be kitted out with the TV monitors which, every Saturday afternoon in the Premier League, provide several replays of the momentary blur which can sometimes pass as a goal and there were certainly none in Istanbul.
They worked with the New Jersey and Connecticut state police, and with foreign consulates, who have sent kits to countries like Germany and Guatemala.
