What clearly has changed, though, is governmental involvement in the civilian economy.
But even aside from the civilian economy, look at the military.
These huge stolen peace dividends should go back to the civilian economy.
But what is true on the battlefield holds as well for the civilian economy.
The plan to cut 500,000 troops could inject new labor and perhaps a little money into the civilian economy.
The clear implication of this is that a fully autonomous civilian economy may not exist.
Of course, we might simply ask those guys to do something directly useful for the civilian economy.
It rapidly mobilized its civilian economy for the war effort.
Even more than in the civilian economy, defense layoffs always kick up a furor.
Military pay is generally considerably lower than pay in the civilian economy.