Thanks to Nikki for her outstanding work raising consciousness about the connections between militarism and feminism. She has brilliantly described the brainwashing that our young women (and men, too) involuntarily and usually unknowingly undergo from the moment they go to the public (and many private) schools. In the process of preserving and consolidating the power of the multinational corporations, their spokespeople in business and government constantly seek to tell their stories and keep us in thrall, believing that women (and men, too)have no power of own, that we should constantly be afraid of attack from one enemy or another, and that we certainly cannot make our own decisions about things that affect our lives, and that we must let the upper class decide everything for us....what we should eat, what we should read, how we should teach our children, and mostly how we should trust the government to do the right thing for us. In the meantime, they create war after war....which if we think about it, we know they must do to keep the military-industrial complex going because it is now the largest sector of the economy.