Chapter 6: The War Machine Part 1

This is the 1st stream of Chapter 6. There will be one more stream on the chapter.

“U.S. Defense Spending Compared to Other Countries,” Peter G. Peterson Foundation, (Accessed May 8, 2023), www.pgpf.org/blog/2023/04/the-united-states-spends-more-on-defense-than-the-next-10-countries-combined.

Ibid.

“Countries with the Highest Military Spending Worldwide in 2022,” Statista (Accessed June 13, 2023), www.statista.com/statistics/262742/countries-with-the-highest-military-spending/.

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Ashik Siddique, “U.S. Still Spends More on Military Than Next Nine Countries Combined,” National Priorities Project, June 22, 2022, www.nationalpriorities.org/blog/2022/06/22/us-still-spends-more-military-next-nine-countries-combined/.

Doug Bamdow, “750 Bases in 80 Countries is Too Many for Any Nation: Time for the US to Bring Its Troops Home,” Cato Institutes Commentary, October 4, 2021, www.cato.org/commentary/750-bases-80-countries-too-many-any-nation-time-us-bring-its-troops-home#.

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Stephen Semeler, “Biden is Selling Weapons to the Majority of the World’s Autocracies,” The Intercept, May 11, 2023, www.theintercept.com/2023/05/11/united-states-foreign-weapons-sales/.

Ibid.

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Murtaza Hussain, “Over Two Decades, U.S.’s Global War on Terror Has Taken Nearly 1 Million Lives and Cost $8 Trillion,” The Intercept, September 1, 2021, www.theintercept.com/2021/09/01/war-on-terror-deaths-cost.

Ibid.

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William D. Hartung, “What a Waste: $778 Billion for the Pentagon and Still Counting,” Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, February 3, 2022, www.quincyinst.org/2022/02/03/what-a-waste-778-billion-for-the-pentagon-and-still-counting/.

Ibid.

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William Arkin, “Sunk Cost,” Newsweek, April 28, 2023.

Richard Knowles Morris, “The Story of the Holland Submarine,” U.S. Naval Institute, January 1960, www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1960/january/story-holland-submarine-pictorial/.

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