Wealth Inequality: Core Challenge for National Security
By Edward Corcoran / Ret. Strategic Analyst, U.S. Army War College / 04/30/2013 America prides itself on being the Land of Opportunity, and has made real efforts to be a land of equal opportunity. But it has never claimed to be a land of equal results. The driving force of the capitalist economic system is to get ahead with hard work and clever thinking, get ahead of the crowd in terms of assets and prestige. This is in stark contract to a socialist system focused more on le