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Jun 2025
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How the Military Industrial Complex real...

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NOTE: This conversation was recorded in November 2024, which is why you'll hear references to the elections and the Biden Administration.

This week on The Big Picture, we sit down with military analyst and author William Hartung.

Hartung is a senior fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, and in 2010 published Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Military Industrial-Complex - a seminal work that examined how military lobby groups shaped public policy, and how White House officials pursued lucrative jobs in the same lobbies that funded their political careers.

In 2024 he published a Cost of War report with Brown University, which unpacked the $20 billion of military aid the Biden Administration had given to Israel's government since October 7, the majority of which was then used to purchase weapons from US military companies.

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