Journalist Andrew Cockburn, author of the new book The Spoils of War, explains why the United States’ astronomical Pentagon budget hasn’t led to better national defense and what’s driving the growth of the military industrial complex today.

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Weekends: Power, Profit, and the American War Machine w/ Andrew Cockburn