NYT: Who Signs Up to Fight? Makeup of U.S. Recruits Shows Glaring Disparity. “More and more, new recruits are the children of old recruits. In 2019, 79 percent of Army recruits reported having a family member who served. For nearly 30 percent, it was a parent — a striking point in a nation where less than 1 percent of the population serves in the military.”

+ “The report, from the Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs at Brown University, also finds that more than 801,000 people have died as a direct result of fighting. Of those, more than 335,000 have been civilians. Another 21 million people have been displaced due to violence.” CNBC: America has spent $6.4 trillion on wars in the Middle East and Asia since 2001, a new study says.