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Andrew Cockburn

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Military Industrial Complex

The $850 billion chicken comes home to roost

The military industrial complex is not designed to actually fight wars. If so, you wouldn’t see Ukraine struggling right now to win one.

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Military Industrial Complex

Getting the defense budget right: A (real) grand total, over $1.4 trillion

Laying it out in graph form shows past and present gimmicks used to manipulate the public's perception of what is considered 'defense.'

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We were promised 'economic shock and awe' against Russia

But one year after its brutal invasion of Ukraine, Moscow looks poised to weather the worst of Western sanctions.

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Military Industrial Complex

The B-21: another Air Force diva that can't deliver?

The glitzy debut of the next-gen Northrop Grumman bomber belies a payload of military industrial disappointments.

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Military Industrial Complex

The War Party parties in Aspen — at the rest of the world's expense

Policy discussions at this convocation of national security elite felt like something from another planet.