“The whole point of the military-first policy was not so much to whip up support for the military as to de-ideologize the economic sector, to make it possible to dismantle the command economy without dismantling the authority of the whole system.”

— Brian Reynolds Myers

2010s, Interview with Joshua Stanton (August 2017)

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