Warfare Without Guns

           Over the last twenty-five years or so, the U.S. has been in a nearly constant state of war. Desert Storm in the nineties, Kosovo in ninety-nine, which is relevant because I was in the Navy at the time, then we all know about 9/11 and the constant war on terror we have been in since. As a society we have grown accustomed to war. There  is another type of war that we have grown accustomed to as well. A war that is fought without guns. This war really isn't fought with words either. It's a war that is fought with money. This new era of war is contended by corporations and monopolized companies who set the standards of what the foundation of the nation is to move forward unto. Those who accumulate an abundance of control over money are the so called the victors in this era. Money is power in todays standards weather most who do not believe it to be true, it is. Whomever controls this power has the ability to continue becoming wealthy by investment into projects or by buying out franchises and spreading more jobs amongst the general population who struggle with finding a job. Wall street is a crucial example of what protestors tend to stop or change wealthy entrepreneurs from sharing the nations wealth only to themselves. A movement called Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is a crucial point in 2011 when tax payers bailed out the banks from a depression, only in return to financially gain in the uprising thus leaving that wealth only for the rich. "We Are the 99%, The Richest 1% of people in the U.S. control an ever increasing share of the nations wealth while the rest of the country has found it increasingly difficult to make ends meet."(“Occupy Wall Street.” Issues & Controversies. Infobase Learning, 21 Nov. 2011. Web. 26 Feb. 2015.)

This is just the pinnacle of what the new era of warfare looks like, its not men and women armed with guns, it the injustice distribution of financial gains. This new era for the U.S. in the early 21st century, the 99% population is in a battle that does not intend to be supported by fairly economic wealth distribution amongst the nation but consumed by the greed of the 1% Entrepreneurs.