The European military-industrial complex was on full display at a hotel in former East Berlin this week. An array of business suits and military uniforms buzzed about the conference area, as icons of the global arms industry boasted their lethal wares and top transatlantic brass took to stages to promote common defense.
The message was clear: Peacetime is over. The so-called peace dividend, which western societies have enjoyed since the end of the Cold War, has been spent. A new era of…