as i see it, bitcoin enables people to fund their own everything, and anything related to cooperative organisations like this, such as setting up strategic defense systems that require a large amount of resources, i think the point i'm getting to here is simply that the State depends on a constant state of war, and that in the case of a pure defense system, you don't have to invest in very much expeditionary equipment, you don't need massive warships, you don't need very many air defense systems - and those are all now being replaced by drones anyway, and simply a free society does not take part in expeditionary warfare, they only send out small groups and reconnaisance to ensure that there isn't an expeditionary force gathering to prepare to launch an invasion, that's a whole different kettle of fish to how the USG runs the military... they have bases all over the world and are constantly sending weapons and large deployments to other places they have no business being