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The trillion dollar war machine : how runaway military spending drives America into foreign wars and bankrupts us at home Cover Image Book

The trillion dollar war machine : how runaway military spending drives America into foreign wars and bankrupts us at home

Hartung, William D. (author.). Freeman, Ben PhD (author.).

Summary: America spends nearly a trillion dollars a year on its military. This extraordinary spending not only detracts from our ability to address pressing social problems but compels us into foreign wars to justify our vast arsenal. Sold to us in the name of "security," our military industrial complex actually makes us far less safe. Top policy experts William D. Hartung and Ben Freeman follow the profits of militarism from traditional Pentagon contractors, which receive more than half of the Pentagon's budget, to the upstart high-tech firms that shamelessly promote unproven and destabilizing technologies. They unmask the enablers of the war machine--politicians, lobbyists, the media, Hollywood, think tanks, and so many more--whose work enriches a wealthy elite at the expense of everybody else, spreading conflict around the world and embroiling America in endless wars. A damning tour de force, The Trillion Dollar War Machine shows who is pulling the strings and pushing for war, and offers a blueprint for how we can shut down the war machine and restore American security and prosperity.

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  • ISBN: 9781645030638
  • ISBN: 1645030636
  • Physical Description: print
    viii, 327 pages : portraits ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Bold Type Books, 2025.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction: The United States of Armament -- Part One: The Broken War Machine -- 1. "We Don't Apologize": How the United States Became the Top Arms Dealer in the World -- 2. From Arsenal of Democracy to Factory of Endless War -- 3. Profiteers of Armageddon -- 4. The Merchants of Death: Corporations Cash In on Conflict -- Part Two: The Costs of the War Machine -- 5. Endless Wars Abroad, Endless Costs at Home -- 6. Overseas Bases and the Cost of Military Overreach -- Part Three: Selling the War Machine -- 7. How the War Machine's Lobbyists Win in Washington -- 8. An Artificial Consensus: Think Tanks on the Take -- 9. The Militarization of American Science: Buying the Ivory Tower -- 10. Capturing the Media: How Propaganda Powers the War Machine -- 11. The Battle for Hearts and Minds: Hollywood and the Whitewashing of War -- 12. Making the Military More "Disney-like": The Pentagon and the Gaming Industry -- Part Four: The Future of the War Machine -- 13. Brave New War Machine: Big Tech and the Future of the Arms Industry -- 14. From War Machine to Peace Machine -- Epilogue: The War Machine in the Era of Musk and Trump.

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