Articles by William D. Hartung and Mandy Smithberger

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Bestselling Pentagon Fiction: Beware of Defense Secretaries Pledging Reform
William D. Hartung and Mandy Smithberger – TomDispatch, 14 Oct 2019

The pentagon is pledging to reform itself. Again. It Won’t. The new secretary of defense, a former Raytheon lobbyist, won’t even pledge not to go back through the revolving door. With a budget totaling more than $1.4 trillion for the next two years, the department is riding high, even as it attempts to set the stage for yet more spending increases in the years to come.

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