As we seek new ways to secure the resources needed for meeting our growing profit demands, it is essential that we recognize and celebrate the particularly important role that armed forces have taken throughout the years in helping to free-up stubborn markets for exploration and exploitation.

Just as the european colonial endevours of previous centuries provided for the siphening of riches out of conquered lands and into the pockets of the well deserving european classes, so to can modern military endevours help to convert the superstitious populations of the world to the virtues of a free market governance.

We salute the armed forces of the world who protect our right to operate in a pristine business environment untouched by the polluting forces of public oversight, government regulation and social responsibilities.

Learn more about ExxonMobil's commitment to armed force:

A Century Of War : Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order, by F. William Engdahl

Forgotten Oil Wars of the “War on Terrorism”, Bill Weinberg, The Nonviolent Activist, Winter 2005

ExxonMobil-Sponsored Terrorism?, David Corn, The Nation Blog, 06/14/2002

ExxonMobil, Aceh and the Tsunami, Democracy Now, Tuesday, January 4th, 2005

Resource War in Aceh: Indonesia crushes insurgencies, Al Gedicks, Z magazine, July/August 2003

Big Oil pushes the White House for a war with Iraq, Greenpeace International, 27 January 2003

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