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Nov 5, 2021 · Journalist Andrew Cockburn discusses his new book “The Spoils of War: Power, Profit, and the American War Machine.”
Oct 27, 2021 · Cockburn suggests that the Pentagon and the corporations that feed off it have generated the largest and most byzantine bureaucracy in human history, filled with innumerable fiefdoms far more...
May 9, 2024 · Scott is joined by Andrew Cockburn for a high-level discussion of the neoconservative movement and the military-industrial complex. They talk about an article Cockburn wrote on the emergence of neoconservatism, reflect on the origins of Iraq War I and utilize Cockburn’s years of studying the military-industrial complex to….
Mar 1, 2022 · Cockburn says the United States and its allies broke promises made in the 1990s not to expand the military alliance into Eastern Europe, setting the stage for an eventual confrontation.
Sep 9, 2021 · Why America Goes to War. Money drives the US military machine. Andrew Cockburn. In plane sight: The B-1 bomber is notoriously unreliable. But on the plus side, it’s very expensive. This...
Sep 21, 2021 · One of the most interesting ideas that Cockburn discusses in The Spoils of War is that the US military is not driven primarily by the motive of creating the most productive fighting force, but is instead driven primarily by the need to use the production of arms and military technology as a way to make profit for elite capital (i.e., the ...
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