military industrial complex 
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SOURCE: Foreign Affairs
7/3/2023
America Broke its Own Military Industrial Complex
by Michael Brenes
Privatization has worked out great for defense contractors who rake in money for big-ticket experimental programs without any expectation of producing basic military hardware.
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
3/21/2023
Despite Ike's Warning, We're Still Nailed to a Cross of Iron
by William Astore
At the start of his presidency, Eisenhower warned of the dangers and costs of escalating militarism. By the end of his term, he was convinced the Military-Industrial Complex had entrenched itself. It was only getting started.
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SOURCE: The Drift
Silicon Valley Was and Is The Child of the Military-Industrial Complex
by Jeannette Estruth
"The technology sector attributes its economic power to its own creativity and rogue innovation, but throughout its history it has been dependent on the federal budget."
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SOURCE: Vox
5/27/2022
"Top Gun: Maverick" Latest Chapter in Love Affair Between Hollywood and Pentagon
Despite its characterization as liberal and cosmopolitan, the film industry has eagerly embraced the military in the pursuit of box office.
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SOURCE: Jacobin
2/24/2022
The US Military is an Obstacle to Climate Action
by Michael Franczak
The Kyoto protocols are inherently undermined by negotiated pledges that preserve the ability of the Pentagon to burn fossil fuels around the globe.
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
12/12/2021
Going Nuclear on Military Spending
by William Astore
"Why, despite decades of disastrous wars, do Pentagon budgets continue to grow, year after year, like ever-expanding nuclear mushroom clouds?"
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
11/16/2021
The Pentagon as Penta-God
by William Astore
"Paraphrasing Joe Biden, show me your budget and I’ll tell you what you worship. In that context, there can’t be the slightest doubt: America worships its Pentagod and the weapons and wars that feed it."
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SOURCE: War on the Rocks
11/15/2021
The Littoral Combat Ship is a Lens on the Military-Industrial Complex
by Emma Salisbury
"The military-contract treadmill is still running."
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
11/9/2021
Is Reining In the Pentagon Even Possible?
by Mandy Smithberger and William Hartung
The CBO's recent study proposes three paths to cutting $1 trillion from the defense budget. Even these proposals still leave in place massive Pentagon budgets and affirm the nation's use of military force as the first option for resolving international security issues.
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
9/21/2021
The Profits of War
by William Hartung
Between weapons systems and a shadow army of contractors and logistics consultants, the War on Terror has been a bonanza for large corporations that shows no signs of abating.
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
9/19/2021
After Afghanistan: Will Peace Get a Chance?
by William Astore
"Here’s the rest of my message to my fellow citizens. Stop rewarding the Pentagon and its failed generals and admirals with yet more money."
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
5/25/2021
America Dominant Again (in Arms Sales)
by William Hartung
The United States continues to supply the world with arms at the expense of human rights.
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SOURCE: Zcomm
4/25/2021
Amid Widespread Disease, Death, and Poverty, the Major Powers Increased Their Military Spending in 2020
by Lawrence Wittner
You might assume that the COVID-19 pandemic has encouraged the world's leading military powers, starting with the US, to reconsider their priorities and direct fewer resources to weapons. You would be wrong.
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
3/4/2021
Rewarding Failure
by William Astore
One place a little cancel culture could come in handy is in the halls of the Pentagon, where costly and pointless weapons programs prove impossible to kill off.
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
7/26/2020
Killing Democracy in America: The Military-Industrial Complex as a Cytokine Storm
by William Astore
Sadly, it’s a reasonable bet that in the long run, even with Donald Trump as president, America has a better chance of defeating COVID-19 than the virus of forever war.
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SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
7/16/19
Eisenhower's Worst Nightmare
by William D. Hartung
When, in his farewell address in 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned of the dangers of the “unwarranted influence” wielded by the “military-industrial complex,” he could never have dreamed of an arms-making corporation of the size and political clout of Lockheed Martin.
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4/28/19
Beware Anew the Military-Industrial Complex: Revisiting Eisenhower's Warning
by Gregory D. Foster
The military-industrial complex has been given new, unfettered life and license by the 2018 National Defense Strategy document.
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SOURCE: Atlantic
1-1-15
The Tragedy of the American Military
by James Fallows
" [The] reverent but disengaged attitude toward the military—we love the troops, but we’d rather not think about them—has become so familiar that we assume it is the American norm. But it is not."
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