Foreign Policy In Focus: Military-Industrial Complex Revisited

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By William D. Hartung, World Policy Institute

REVISED 6-8-99

The World in Numbers
Military-Industrial Complex in Numbers
Weapons Procurement, 1998-2003
U.S., Allies, and Potential Enemies Defense Expenditures
Global Military Budget, 1997
Top Five Global Arms Suppliers: 1997
What’s Good for Lockheed Martin: U.S. Security Policy
Norman Augustine
The Arms Lobby: A Profile
Congressional "Add-Ons" FY 1999
Intelligence Agencies: Estimates of Budget and Personnel 1998
Subsidies to Defense Industry for Arms Sales

Contents:

Introduction: Back to the Future
Mission Implausible: Two War Strategy as "Globocop"
New Military Mega-Companies: Corporate Interests or National Interests
Pushing Weapons at Home:
    The Star Wars Lobby
    The Star Warriors: Who's Benefiting from National Missile Defense?
Fighting Back:
    Promoting a Preventive Strategy
    Main Components of a Preventive Strategy
Notes
Appendix: The Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex

Author: William D. Hartung
Editors: Tom Barry (IRC) and Martha Honey (IPS)
Research: Meena Bhandari (IPS)
Production: Grant Moser (IRC)

This report is based on an essay by William D. Hartung that will be published in a forthcoming book edited by Tom Barry and Martha Honey, codirectors of the Foreign Policy In Focus project, which is a joint effort of the Interhemispheric Resource Center and the Institute for Policy Studies. The new book, Global Affairs 2000: A New Foreign Policy Agenda, will be released in mid-1999. For more information about the Foreign Policy In Focus project's publications, see the back pages of this report or visit our website: http://www.fpif.org/

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Generous support from the Rubin Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation made the publication of this report possible.

Published by the Interhemispheric Resource Center and the Institute for Policy Studies.
ISBN 0-911213-66-X

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