Why Is The US Always At War?

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

https://theintercept.com/2021/05/28/biden-pentagon-defense-contractors/

https://inthesetimes.com/article/joe-biden-department-of-defense-pentagon-transition-team-weapons-industry-military

https://theintercept.com/2017/03/21/revolving-door-military/

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/08/trump-military-defense-industry-booster-410396

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/09/trumps-national-security-team-is-now-a-wholly-owned-subsidiary-of-the-defense-industry/

https://www.citizen.org/article/tracker-trump-appointees-in-the-pocket-of-big-corporations/

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