Cost Without Consent: The Political Economy of Permanent War

[Sankha Subhra Biswas]

... What matters politically is not just the overall cost but also how it is distributed. The Korean and Vietnamese wars established a lasting framework: extensive military commitments funded through unacknowledged trade-offs4. Lyndon Johnson’s escalation in Vietnam did not only involve waging war abroad; it also limited the domestic aspirations of the Great Society at home5. The decision regarding the trade-off between military expenditure and social welfare was made at a structural level, yet it is consistently obscured in public discourse—this ongoing pattern persists to the present day, as evidenced by the continued prioritisation of defence budgets over social programs in government policy discussions. 

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