Okay, I’ll be honest-I lean harder towards Column B, but I’ve got several good reasons for that. It’s to be a bit of Column A, a bit of Column B, then. The problem is, whether you choose one reading or the other, you’ll find out before long that the text is sabotaging you, delivering one blow after another to any degree of certainty you might place in either position. It’s easy to relegate it to one of two neat classifications: either a straight-faced satire that takes the piss out of the military-industrial complex or else, a fully realised celebration of the serving man’s fraternity, of the sacrifice of the individual for the collective’s greater good, and of militarism at large.
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