{"id":21371,"date":"2016-07-03T19:33:33","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T00:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21371"},"modified":"2016-07-03T19:33:33","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T00:33:33","slug":"guns-and-hotdogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21371","title":{"rendered":"Guns and Hotdogs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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GUNS AND HOTDOGS<\/a><\/h3>\n

How the U.S. Military Promotes Its Weapons Arsenal to the Public<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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America\u2019s wars take place far away \u2014 Kabul is 6,700 miles from New York or, traveling in the other direction, 7,400 miles from San Francisco. They also involve fewer and fewer Americans \u2014 the Army now has about\u00a0475,000 active duty soldiers, the lowest number since World War II.<\/p>\n

This leaves the Pentagon free to promote itself to a country that largely has no idea what war actually entails.\u00a0In addition to standard TV advertising and flyovers at the Super Bowl, the U.S. military spends tens of millions of dollars\u00a0each year on live events that function half as recruitment pitches and half as visceral plugs\u00a0for its spectacular high-tech weaponry.<\/p>\n

Photojournalist Nina Berman has spent 10\u00a0years traveling to Fleet Weeks and air shows to document the peculiar collision between the Pentagon\u2019s idealized self-image and the people who pay for it but have little comprehension of what they\u2019re truly buying.<\/p>\n

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U.S. Marines on a light armored vehicle in New York City\u2019s Times Square during Fleet Week in 2015. In the background is an ad for Shandong, China, where U.S. Marines landed at the end of World War II to intervene on the side of Chiang Kai-shek\u2019s Kuomintang in China\u2019s civil war.<\/p>\n

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Civilians handle a pistol with a silencer during Fleet Week at Orchard Beach in the Bronx in 2007. Some of the young men had just signed up to join the Marines and potentially go to Iraq.<\/p>\n

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A U.S. Marine applies camouflage paint to a young woman\u2019s face at an event at Orchard Beach in the Bronx, New York,\u00a02007.<\/p>\n

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GUNS AND HOTDOGS How the U.S. Military Promotes Its Weapons Arsenal to the Public America\u2019s wars take place far away \u2014 Kabul is 6,700 miles from New York or, traveling in the other direction, 7,400 miles from San Francisco. They also involve fewer and fewer Americans \u2014 the Army now has about\u00a0475,000 active duty soldiers, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6734,9812,13659,5567,844],"class_list":["post-21371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-arms","tag-guns","tag-jon-schwarz","tag-the-intercept","tag-us-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21372,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21371\/revisions\/21372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}