Pentagon gets whopping $ 150-billion Budget Bill progress passed by Congress and signed by President July 4. That will push the Pentagon’s proposed Pentagon Budget for more than $ 1 trillion. Most of the large quantities go to weapon manufacturers.
A new one report Through the Quincy Institute and the Brown University project costs were found that during the period from 2020 to 2024, more than half of the Pentagon Budget – 54% – went to private companies. That figure rose very much from the immediate post-cold period in the 1990s, if contractor sharing is 41%.
The drainage of the pentagon’s spending and the main firearm’s weapon providers do not need to be safer. Only military companies can improve over the overpriced overpriced, as promoting a fast-rush race in China.
While the firms of the weapon are good when the new budget is as planned, military personnel and veterans fighting with America’s warfare. The Trump administration is looking for Deep cutting to staff, facilities and research in veterans activities, and ten thousand In military families should use food stamps, a program Cut to 20% to the budget bill, to end the end.
$ 150 billion add-ons for Pentagon includes tension billions for all impossible Trump Management Golden Dome missile defense system of defensea goal pursuing for more than 40 years without success. Other major winners include new Aircraft F-47 combat combats, and the military shipbuilding industry, set for a large infusion of new funds.
The question is how to spend the orgy of the pentagon spent complex with two strong strains fighting with Lockheed and Northrop and Northrop and Northrop Grums, and Northrop Grums
The big five now gets the majority of spending the firearms in the Pentagon, but the tech firms have taken, Wins useful contracts for military communication systems and antidrone system. And there are many contracts. Although the public falls between Elon Musk and the President, Tech Firms Meetings have a decided advantage, with advocates like Vice President JD Vance, that keeps close relationships With his teacher and political advocate of Peter Thiel in Palanir, and many staff staff from military companies are now attached In National Security and Budget Bureauccies of the Trump administration.
Meanwhile, the Promises of the Tech Sector of a new, revolutionary deposit period have been made by artificial weapons made of intelligent. If the previous practice tells us anything, it is new, complex high-tech weapons cannot save us.
Pentagon’s History Histors “Miracle Bars,” From Electronic Battlefields to “Not Dragged” by Ronald Reagan’s ” Star Wars Missile Shield In war networks and precision deployments used in Iraq and Afghan Wars. If push comes to shove, these observed systems fail to work as advertised, or not related to classes they use.
Only one example: in spite of the fact that the Pentagon spent more than $ 10 billion to find a system that can neutralize the improvised explosive devices in Iraq and Afghanistan, made of moderate progress. Even after being deployed new technology, 40% of IEDs cannot be cleared.
Technology is a tool, but it is not the decisive causes of winning wars or heaping enemies. An effective military should be based on well-trained, good payments and highly motivated troops. That means taking some 54% of the Pentagon’s budget to go to contractors and invests in supporting people who are truly raised in America’s wars. But to actually be safe, we have to fight with more wars by adopting a more realistic strategy that emphasizes diplomacy and gathering with a major, direct threat to US security. A more balanced strategy is more likely to put US troops in risks of risks such as future establishment efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Instead of allowing special interests in corporate foreign policies and military policies, we need to keep a procedure first considerations. That means making steps to reduce the power of weapon makers, new and old, by steps of stronger steps to prevent revoking door between government and industry. And we need to bring more independent voices to the Pentagon budget discussions. Lockheed Martin, Treason, Spacex and other companies need not influence decisions of how our military costs, and what it costs. It’s not that way to make a military budget, and there’s no way to protect a country.
William D. Hartung is a senior research associated with the Quincy Institute for responsible Statecraft and CO-author of the war: 2020 to 2024. ”
