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William D. Hartung
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William D. Hartung is the director of the Arms and Security Project at the Center for International Policy and the author of Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex (Nation Books).
The president is smudging facts—this time about defense spending—in hopes of a 2020 win.
Defense spending is higher now than it was during the Korean or Vietnam conflicts and may soon be twice the Cold War average.
America has been dealing arms to the Middle East since Nixon, fueling a lucrative and disastrous kind of foreign policy.
We can’t expect the Pentagon to serve taxpayers first unless long-standing ties to private defense contractors are undone.
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A planned merger between Raytheon and United Technologies will only further consolidate a bloated military-industrial complex.
Each year, Congress approves hundreds of billions of dollars for the US defense budget—but the real number exceeds $1 trillion.
The Trump administration touts weapons spending as the best way to bolster the American economy. It’s not.
Patrick Shanahan, Trump’s new acting defense secretary, has spent an career serving the interests of Boeing’s bottom line. How will he serve the public instead?
Not to mention 240,000 civilian deaths and 21 million displaced. And yet a congressional commission is urging yet more money for a bloated Pentagon.
More money than ever is going towards the least-efficient sector of the economy.
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