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Why Is The US Always At War? – Second Thought
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Citations:
Graphs and data
https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/files/cow/imce/papers/2023/Peltier%202023%20-%20We%20Get%20What%20We%20Pay%20For%20-%20FINAL%20-%200608.pdf
https://books.google.com/books?id=vBWFd4vYxDMC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover (p.217, 259, 227)
https://www.usaspending.gov/agency/department-of-defense?fy=2024
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/pentagon-audit-2666415734/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/unwanted-tanks-and-other-government-waste-detailed-in-reports/
https://www.businessinsider.com/congressmen-want-to-force-the-army-to-buy-33-battle-tanks-it-says-it-doesnt-even-need-2012-5
https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/server/api/core/bitstreams/2c2ab844-9a9f-4d34-be4c-ede71aadcbf6/content
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Graph_price_of_oil_1861_to_2020_WID_data.png
US campaigns in M.E.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/1/what-countries-has-israel-attacked-since-october-7
https://www.cnn.com/2014/09/23/politics/countries-obama-bombed/index.html
The lies behind wars
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/sep/16/iraq.iraqtimeline
https://www.cnn.com/2013/03/19/opinion/iraq-war-oil-juhasz/index.html#:~:text=%E2%80%9COf%20course%20it%E2%80%99s,course%20we%20are.%E2%80%9D
“Exxon, Chevron, BP and Shell collectively spent more money on the 2000 election to get them to office than in any election before”
https://www.cnn.com/2013/03/19/opinion/iraq-war-oil-juhasz/index.html#:~:text=In%202000%2C%20Big%20Oil%2C%20including%20Exxon%2C%20Chevron%2C%20BP%20and%20Shell%2C%20spent%20more%20money%20to%20get%20fellow%20oilmen%20Bush%20and%20Cheney%20into%20office%20than%20they%20had%20spent%20on%20any%20previous%20election
“Iraqi oil fields they’d been eyeing since at least the late 90s”
https://web.archive.org/web/20060827152304/http://www.chevron.com/news/archive/chevron_speech/1998/98-11-05.asp#:~:text=It%20might%20surprise%20you%20to%20learn%20that%20even%20though%20Iraq%20possesses%20huge%20reserves%20of%20oil%20and%20gas%20%2D%2D%20reserves%20I%27d%20love%20Chevron%20to%20have%20access%20to
Oil prices and war
https://books.google.com/books?id=vBWFd4vYxDMC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover (p.226-234)
Petrodollar recycling and wasteful military spending
https://books.google.com/books?id=tWrnDwAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover (p.156)
The Weapondollar-Petrodollar political coalition and the drive for escalation
https://books.google.com/books?id=vBWFd4vYxDMC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover (233, 245, 216, 235, 272)
https://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/98-386.html
Job creation and military spending
https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/files/cow/imce/papers/2023/Peltier%202023%20-%20We%20Get%20What%20We%20Pay%20For%20-%20FINAL%20-%200608.pdf
The Zionist interest in military escalation
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403983428_7
Some sources on political appointees from the MiC
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2014.08.001 (see supplemental materials)
https://www.dol.gov/general/aboutdol/history/dolchp07
https://books.google.com/books?id=vBWFd4vYxDMC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover p.244-262
https://www.wired.com/2013/08/obama-nominates-defense-contractor-executive-as-air-force-secretary/
https://www.wired.com/2013/08/obama-nominates-defense-contractor-executive-as-air-force-secretary/
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/02/26/president-obama-announces-more-key-administration-posts
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/02/26/president-obama-announces-more-key-administration-posts
Joe Biden Is Filling Top Pentagon Positions With Defense Contractors
Donald Trump Is Filling Top Pentagon and Homeland Security Positions With Defense Contractors
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/08/trump-military-defense-industry-booster-410396
Trump’s National Security Team Is Now a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Defense Industry
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