Why Biden shouldn’t wait to reduce defense spending
To avoid impact of the ‘weak on defense’ charge during election season, Biden should act quickly to make good on his campaign promise.
To avoid impact of the ‘weak on defense’ charge during election season, Biden should act quickly to make good on his campaign promise.
America’s military-industrial complex builds the fanciest, most expensive weaponry known to humanity but the end products are often ineffective and unsound.
Transparency is key, but this prominent think tank isn’t always up front about the funding behind its pro-corporate, pro-military positions.
Deep in the military-industrial complex, Alabama anti-war activists stake out a ‘Peace Corner.’
The best hope for reducing Pentagon spending is the collision between that department’s never-ending, ever-rising desires and the overriding economic and political realities of this difficult moment.
War: what is it good for? Apparently, in Washington’s world of think tanks, the answer is: the bottom line.
Huntsville, Alabama is teeming with engineers and STEM talent. Some are leaving the defense economy for the clean energy one.
These groups are pushing the preferred Pentagon narrative, but they fail to let us know who’s paying for the privilege.
Decades of disarray have led many to wonder: What’s going on with the U.S. Navy?
The Trump administration appears to be sacrificing long-term security goals for short-term economic gains.
Cutting the Pentagon budget needs a movement — a big one.
The defense industry is exploiting the pandemic to ask for bailouts and reduced government oversight. It should be paying back the American public instead.
Donald Trump’s use of Pentagon spending and military assistance for political gain has been hiding in plain sight since he entered the Oval Office.
The benefits of diplomacy are greater and longer-lasting, but not as tangible.
There are real issues with military readiness but throwing more money at weapons systems isn’t part of the solution.