There have been media reports, including Sy Hersh, indicating several power enclaves within the military as well. I would doubt that the good general is part of the born-again apocalypsters team.
Battling, corrupt factions with their own power structures was also the way certain fascist governments were organised, and part of the reason they were so dysfunctional. But of course we can't make any comparisons because such comparisons, however apt, apparently trivialise the suffering caused by these governments.
Probably is some kind of mix of being the "new" service (which could be filled with political people... at least when it was new 50 years ago) and the hubris aquired by soaring around in the sky, untouchable, and dropping bombs on people.
Godlike. Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
And I was actually thinking more of the WW2 Luftwaffe than the US Air Force, even if that organization had had its fair share of crazies. Like General Curtis LeMay. Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
