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The trillion-dollar war machine no one will talk about | Unreported
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Are we already at war and nobody told us? In this episode of "Unreported," Meagan Medick digs into America's military-industrial complex with William Hartung, senior research fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and co-author of "The Trillion Dollar War Machine: How Runaway Military Spending Drives America into Foreign Wars and Bankrupts Us at Home." They discuss why every president in the last 20 years has promised to end forever wars, only to keep feeding them.
Hartung explains how defense giants like Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman pull in tens of billions a year in Pentagon contracts. He also talks about why a shocking amount of retired four-star generals end up working for the arms industry, and how Silicon Valley players like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel are cashing in on the new weapons boom. Additionally, they discuss how the Pentagon has its hand in Hollywood and influences what ends up on the big screen.
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