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William D. Hartung

William D. Hartung, a TomDispatch regular, is the director of the Arms and Security Project at the Center for International Policy and the author of Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex.

Northrop Group, Bechtel and Lockhead Martin logos in front of a nuclear blast (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why is the U.S. spending $2 trillion on more weapons that could end the world?

Hekmat Aboukhater, William D. Hartung
George Harris sticks carnations in gun barrels during an antiwar demonstrator at Pentagon in 1967. | Police in riot gear clash with a march of students for Palestine and against the siege of Gaza that left from La Sapienza University on October 13, 2023 in Rome, Italy. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How student activism shapes the struggle for a better world

William D. Hartung
Joe Biden | The remains of artillery shells and missiles including cluster munitions are stored on December 18, 2022 in Toretsk, Ukraine. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

War is bad for you — and the economy: False job claims fuel massive Pentagon budgets

William D. Hartung
An Israeli military AH-64 Apache attack helicopter fires flares while flying over Ashkelon in southern Israel on August 6, 2022. (JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Good times for the military-industrial complex: American arms makers cashing in on conflict

William D. Hartung
Detonation of Nuclear Device (CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Profiteers of armageddon: Oppenheimer and the birth of the nuclear-industrial complex

William D. Hartung
Aerial view of a military building, The Pentagon, Washington DC, USA (Getty Images)

Ultimate all-American slush fund: Budget loophole could send Pentagon spending soaring even higher

Julia Gledhill, William D. Hartung
Anti-aircraft missile system (Getty Images/Anton Petrus)

Military expert: Congress has been captured by the arms industry — and we’re paying the price

William D. Hartung
A US Air Force (USAF) fifth-generation supersonic multirole F-35 fighter jet flies past during a flying display on February 14, 2023. (MANJUNATH KIRAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Experts sound the alarm on the “merger mania” in the military-industrial complex

Julia Gledhill, William D. Hartung
Defence manufacturer Raytheon exhibition stand at the Farnborough Air Show, England. (In Pictures Ltd./Corbis via Getty Images)

Spending unlimited: How the arms industry scams taxpayers

Julia Gledhill, William D. Hartung
Defence manufacturer Raytheon exhibition stand at the Farnborough Air Show, England. (In Pictures Ltd./Corbis via Getty Images)

Arsenal of autocracy? Major weapons makers cash in worldwide — not just in Ukraine

William D. Hartung
Defence manufacturer Raytheon exhibition stand at the Farnborough Air Show, England. (In Pictures Ltd./Corbis via Getty Images)

Ukraine war fuels a weapons gold rush — and defense contractors are already cashing in

William D. Hartung, Julia Gledhill
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks at a virtual event hosted by the Munich Security Conference in the East Room of the White House on February 19, 2021 in Washington, DC. In his remarks, President Biden stressed the United States' commitment to NATO after four years of the Trump administration undermining the alliance. (Anna Moneymaker-Pool/Getty Images)

America dominant again (in arms sales)

William D. Hartung
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The U.S. of A(rms): The art of the weapons deal in the Age of Trump

William D. Hartung
U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper holds a media briefing at the Pentagon August 28, 2019 in Arlington, Virginia. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Police, prisons, and the Pentagon

William D. Hartung
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Will Trump ride Pentagon spending to reelection?

William D. Hartung
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The Pentagon budget has continued to rise for the last 40 years

William D. Hartung
Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman; President Donald Trump (AP/Getty/Salon)

America’s arms sales addiction

William D. Hartung
U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper holds a media briefing at the Pentagon August 28, 2019 in Arlington, Virginia. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Beware of defense secretaries pledging reform

William D. Hartung, Mandy Smithberger
FILE - In this July 7, 2006, file photo, the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is shown after it was unveiled in a ceremony in Fort Worth, Texas. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File) (AP)

Merger mania: The military-industrial complex on steroids

William D. Hartung
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Boondoggle, Inc.: A dollar-by-dollar tour of the national security state

William D. Hartung, Mandy Smithberger
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Our man from Boeing: Has the arms industry captured Trump’s Pentagon?

William D. Hartung, Mandy Smithberger
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Pentagon socialism: The Pentagon’s plan to dominate the economy

William D. Hartung
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Trump’s Space Force: To boldly go nowhere?

William D. Hartung
(AP/Evan Vucci)

Donald Trump, international gunrunner

William D. Hartung
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