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Sep 21, 2021 · Andrew Cockburn’s fantastic new book, The Spoils of War: Power, Profit, and the American War Machine, builds a case that U.S. foreign policy is driven primarily by weapons profits, secondarily by bureaucratic inertia, and little if at all by any other interests, be they defensive or humanitarian, sadistic or insane.
Who drives the war machines, and why. Click to read Spoils of War, by Andrew Cockburn, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
Andrew Cockburn. Who drives the war machines, and why. Click to read Spoils of War, by Andrew Cockburn, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
To this end, he had promised to invest $1 billion in TerraPower, a company he founded in 2008 to develop small modular reactors that can be churned out on an assembly line. He was now happy to announce the construction of a plant on the site of a defunct coal facility in Wyoming.
Proponents of the Silicon Valley approach found friendly reception elsewhere in the upper tiers of the Pentagon—especially among acolytes of Andrew Marshall, the venerated former director of the Office of Net Assessment, an internal Pentagon think tank.
The Bloom Comes Off the Georgian Rose. In the aftermath of Georgia’s presidential elections, questions emerge about Mikhail Saakashvili’s support for jihadist operations in southern Russia, and about what the United States knew. by Andrew Cockburn. [Letter from Washington]
Nov 5, 2021 · Journalist Andrew Cockburn discusses his new book “The Spoils of War: Power, Profit, and the American War Machine.”
Andrew Cockburn is a British journalist and author. As of now, he serves as Washington Editor at Harper’s Magazine since 2013. He is also the CEO of Table Rock Films. Andrew serves as the chairman of the board at Senior Producer Blackwater Productions.
Secret powers and the presidency. by Andrew Cockburn. Adjust. A few hours before the inauguration ceremony, the prospective president receives an elaborate and highly classified briefing on the means and procedures for blowing up the world with a nuclear attack, a rite of passage that a former official described as “a sobering moment.”.
Dec 31, 2021 · In his latest book, The Spoils of War: Power, Profit and the American War Machine, Andrew Cockburn presents a damning account of America’s military-industrial complex, culled from his best work over a decade on the paradoxical nature of American military power: eminently powerful, yet so dysfunctional. Two essential features make Cockburn’s ...
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