Frida Berrigan, co-author of the article ‘Who Rules the Pentagon?’, discusses Obama’s distinctly non-reformist national security team, the need to reevaluate the meaning of ‘national defense’ amidst a U.S. empire of bases, the struggle between realists and neocons over weapons procurement dollars and the public relations campaign of defense contractors to base Pentagon funding on a percentage of GDP.
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