{"id":62330,"date":"2021-09-17T11:15:15","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T18:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/?p=62330"},"modified":"2021-09-17T11:15:15","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T18:15:15","slug":"pentagon-paid-the-arms-industry-at-least-4-4-trillion-since-9-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/?p=62330","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Paid the Arms Industry at Least $4.4 Trillion Since 9\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2021\/09\/13\/pentagon-paid-the-arms-industry-at-least-4-4-trillion-since-9-11\/\">AntiWar<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>Brown University\u2019s Costs of War Project released a new report Monday detailing post-9\/11 spending by the Pentagon. The study found that of the over $14 trillion spent by the Pentagon since the start of the war in Afghanistan, one-third to one-half went to private military contractors.<\/p>\n<p>The report, authored by William Hartung of the Center for International Policy, said $4.4 trillion of the total spending went towards weapons procurement and research and development, a category that directly benefits corporate military contractors. Private contractors are also paid through other funds, like operations and maintenance, but those numbers are harder to determine.<\/p>\n<p>Out of the $4.4 trillion, the top five US weapons makers \u2014 Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics, Raytheon, and Northrop Grumman \u2014 received $2.2 trillion, almost half. To put these huge numbers into perspective, the report pointed out that in the 2020 fiscal year, Lockheed Martin received $75 billion in Pentagon contracts, compared to the combined $44 billion budget for the State Department and USAID that same year.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via: AntiWar: Brown University\u2019s Costs of War Project released a new report Monday detailing post-9\/11 spending by the Pentagon. The study found that of the over $14 trillion spent by the Pentagon since the start of the war in Afghanistan, one-third to one-half went to private military contractors. The report, authored by William Hartung of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,22,8,39,14,48,15,10,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atrocities","category-dictatorship","category-economy","category-elite","category-false-flag-operations","category-fraud","category-outsourced","category-social-engineering","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62331,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62330\/revisions\/62331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}