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Some
Economics of Lasting Change
 by Michael J. Hicks
Earlier this month your
columnist ended a military career that began with a 17-year-old three
decades ago. That is sufficient time to have been in the infantry, even if
much of it was part time. Now it is certain the Army is eager to trade this
nearly 50-year-old lieutenant colonel for two 25-year-old lieutenants. So I
retire. Naturally, there are economic lessons here.
My military career was unexceptional. I spent four years in a military
college, more than two additional years in specialized schools (jumping out
of planes, blowing up bridges, combat air traffic control, planning battles
and the like). I spent most of one year in a war, a big part of another in
peacekeeping service and the rest training my soldiers for war. I have dug
foxholes in Africa, Asia, Europe and in the U.S. (perhaps I should be a
professor of comparative soil geology).
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