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12 December, 2007

Interesting Numbers*

Where in the World is the U.S. Military? Here are a few* places:

South Korea: 28,000
Japan: 48,000
Germany: 64,000
the rest of Europe (excluding Bosnia & Kosovo): 24,000

* Based in part on 2005 numbers. More here.

Power

"The disposition of mankind, whether as rulers or as fellow-citizens, to impose their own opinions and inclinations as a rule of conduct on others, is so energetically supported by some of the best and by some of the worst feelings incident to human nature, that it is hardly ever kept under restraint by anything but want of power; and as the power is not declining, but growing, unless a strong barrier of moral conviction can be raised against the mischief, we must expect, in the present circumstances of the world, to see it increase."
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859