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November 2009 
What would have to change for there to be no war?
ItsWill
A Veteran, I was questioning the same thing today after a remarkably warm and open visit with my parents. [Please understand it is a lack of communication on my part that keeps the relationship from glowing.]
I work in Logistics for the United States Army National Guard. While that may get me instantly shunned by many Gaia members, I can assure them that I was a professional, defensive, and never retaliated. It also means I know just what it takes to wage the "stretched supply line" War in the Iraqi theatre of operations. I believe War is, and has always been, based on economy.
Non-Zero Sum interaction, across the board, is the only permanent solution to warless society. "Simple Living" or exodus away from emerging societal patterns cannot economically sustain the Immersion Into Interaction that Consiousness brought us here to experience, globally.
Non-Zero Sum is mutually beneficial, but even moreso. Mutually Sacrificial/Empathetic of each other?
We teach not just ourselves to be in a state of peace with our stranger, but companies/countries to do the same.
The first step is to decimate wisdom regarding the benefits of investing in Education, social work, and non-military reserarch etc. rather than Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Kellogg Brown & Root , Exxon-Mobil or the rest of the Capitalocratic Corporations in the pockets of social taxes.
Huh...sounds like the messages we've been shouting all along...just not with our dollar. And until you are willing to do so, soldiers will always be necessary.
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I'm also in the military (USAF for 6 years and now Reserves) and agree with you completely. The US spends $1trillion on its military, the sum of what we spend on bombs and tanks could be spent on healthcare, education, alternative sources of energy…. Can you imagine how Iraq would have unfolded if we sent a non-violent army? Military bases could become meditation centers and places to teach skills to the locals. Mass media and television could disseminate information on critical issues like sustainability and can retrain our behavioral patterns. I guess the goal is to find a language (without sounded like a radical hippie) to speak to mainstream society in a way they're open to listen and understand.
I work for the Federal Aviation Administration now, been with them for 20 years. But before that I was in the Navy and was a weapons technician.
Thank you for your service to our country.
Blessings in this day and I read quite a few of your blogs this morning. Will catch up even more in the next few days.