'The U.S. has a government that is largely devoted to war and militarism,' reads a new analysis from Brown University's CostsOfWar Project.
William Hartung, a senior research fellow at the Quincy Institute, notes in his analysis that $886 billion for the military is"a sum far higher in real terms than the peaks of the Korean or Vietnam wars or the height of the Cold War."
"Because the majority of taxpayer dollars and federal resources are devoted to the military and military industries, and most government jobs are in the defense sector, the political power of this sector has become more deeply entrenched and other alternatives have become harder to pursue," reads the Brown analysis, authored by Heidi Peltier.
And some lawmakers are exploring ways to circumvent the $886 billion topline to hand even more money to the Pentagon as newlast week that some lawmakers are hoping to stuff"cash for other Pentagon priorities" into a package ostensibly aimed at providing more assistance to Ukraine. "We are overspending on the Pentagon instead of providing adequate funding to address other urgent security needs, and too often favoring special interests over the national interest."
"Firms such as Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, General Dynamics, and Boeing spend millions of dollars in lobbying each year and use their political capital to secure monopoly-like contracts with the Department of Defense," the report notes.
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