‘The good society does not concede authority to the military power. This is not because of the danger, much feared in the less fortunate lands, that it will replace the civilian government….
Rather it is because the modern military power is not beholden to the larger public interest, urgently and solemnly as this is avowed; it is governed by its own interest, which moreover, can be intensely damaging to the larger public needs and goals.”
John Kenneth Galbraith
The Good Society – the humane agenda
Houghton Mifflin, 1996
