Wright Mills imparts a bold statement in his opening sentence, when he writes, "The power of ordinary men are circumscribed by the everyday worlds in which they live, yet even in the rounds of job, family, and neighborhood they often seem driven by forces they can neither understand nor govern" (Mills 1956). ... Ordinary men have enhanced the "power elite". ... The military order, once a slim establishment in a context of distrust fed by state militia, has become the largest and most expensive feature of government, and, although well versed in smiling public relations, now has all the grim an...

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