Military Financing and Innovation

It is possible to finance the military via entrepreneurship and innovation. But the military can also take a leaf out of the Knights Templar’s book and have a business and finance division whose goal is to generate funds for the military and its personnel, including veterans. Canvassing donations and simply starting businesses related to military technology including civilian applications such as diverting military aeronautics technology into commercial aircraft, improving GPS systems, body armour, private security, management consultancies, personal training, hostage rescue, defensive and advanced driving skills, vehicle and computer repair, IT, cyber security, martial arts instruction, marksmanship and licensed gun vendor and shooting range ownership (in the United States), medical devices, private hospitals. So you’d need a hybrid corporate structure that is part owned by the military and part private, to enable IPO’s. One central parent company could control and finance (via a form of venture capitalism), a variety of smaller subsidiaries offering various products and services. The discipline, toughness, focus, work ethic, and specialised skills of military personnel and the out of the box thinking encouraged in the special forces make them well suited to working in private industry, provided there is proper leadership. The executives of these military companies could be furnished from the private sector or by generals and colonels. The private business division could be an ideal place for military personnel approaching retirement and ease the transition into civilian life that many veterans find so difficult. In the UK, the Defence Academy as a hub of knowledge and skills across service branches, would be crucial to this enterprise.

The military could even pay its own wages by collateralising its assets and issuing a currency or cryptocurrency that would have superior purchasing power to most national currencies, because it would be backed fully or partially by those assets (preferably the latter). The total assets of the US military are around $3 trillion. The UK military has around £200 billion worth of assets. For most militaries, the combined assets represent a strong amount of collateral for a new currency. This could be issued to soldiers in lieu of conventional currency and exchangeable with conventional currency at a favourable rate of exchange, given how conventional currencies are reliant on the petro-dollar since 1973, that would enable the military to finally pay its personnel generously. This measure, taken together with the military entrepreneurship, would also help to finance proper care for the families of wounded and deceased servicemen and women, and organisations such as the Veterans association. US Military Overspending The US ‘Military Industrial Complex’ that President Dwight D. Eisenhower spoke of so ominously in his parting address is fuelled by oligopolies in the private defence sector, resulting in wasteful overspending on weapons programs. The simple solution here is to simply break up the oligopolies and introduce more competition in the defence sector, or, failing that, to shop around and buy more weapons and military equipment from trusted allies. Strategy for the UK’s Armed Forces

Emergency preparedness should be top priority, because a series of natural catastrophes, some of which will affect the UK, are on the horizon. On the basis of Bible prophecy, it is possible to predict civil unrest, inflation, a rain of hail, fire and blood (Revelation 8:7), an asteroid impact, a third of the Mediterranean turning to blood (Revelation 8:8–9), a third of the rivers and springs turning bitter either in the Middle East (Revelation 8:10),), Israel, or globally,  and a rampaging demonic army, among other horrors. In a nutshell, the UK military should stop playing global sheriff’s deputy and focus on addressing the country’s many dire domestic problems. This would include: policing the border effectively to tackle illegal immigration (if for no other reason, to prevent terrorists and hostile state actors from entering the country), supporting ambulances and the groaning NHS (National Health Service) with their transport vehicles, medical officers and medics, reinforcing the police with military police to maintain law and order in crime-ridden cities, supplementing MI5, counterterrorism police and GCHQ with military intelligence and infantry boots on the ground in UK cities to tackle the growing future threat of terrorism and using the Royal Engineers to boost and repair vital infrastructure and build emergency structures like flood defences and bunkers, to be supplied by the Logistics Corps, all of which would require considerable investment and expansion of the armed forces. The investment can be provided via the venture capital strategy above. Personnel would rotate between conventional military duties like training and deployments, with their new role, so that they do not lose their edge as a fighting force. This strategy could be applied to other nations who are struggling with similar problems.