It used to be that the New York Times and the Washington Post competed against each other to be the chief propagandist for the hundred or so top firms who sell to the U.S. federal government — the 100 top “federal contractors,” almost all of which are Pentagon contractors — mainly these are weapons-manufacturing firms, such as the biggest,[Read More...]
Polls show that Americans are tired of endless wars in faraway lands, but many cheer President Trump’s showering money on the Pentagon and its contractors, a paradox that President Eisenhower foresaw, writes JP Sottile. By JP Sottile The Military-Industrial Complex…Read more →
The Syrian Army discovered warehouses filled with US military equipment left behind by ISIS militants who recently retreated. A Leaked memo from the Pentagon to the State Department acknowledged that "The West, Gulf countries, and Turkey support [this] opposition" which referred to the Muslim Brotherhood and al-Qaeda. [...]
Table taken from “Costs of War” report by the Watson Institute.
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DOD Spent $35,654,013,000+ on 306 individual contracts in August 2017
The Pentagon issues a jumbled list of contracts every business day around 5:00PM local time. Our project distills an entire month of these contracts into an accessible form.
The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) spent at least $35,654,013,000 on 306 individual contracts during August 2017. This amount does not include 18 Foreign Military Sales transactions worth $3,090,162,000.
