"The War Industry infests the American economy like a cancer, sapping its strength and distorting its creativity while devouring its treasure. Stunning in the depth of its research, Understanding the War Industry documents how the war industry commands the other two sides of the military-industrial-congressional triangle. It lays bare the multiple levers enabling the vast and proliferating war industry to wield undue influence, exploiting financial and legal structures, while co-opting Congress, academia and the media. Spiked with insights into how corporate boardrooms view the troops, overseas bases, and warzones, it assiduously delineates how corporations reap enormous profits by providing a myriad of goods and services devoted to making war, which must be rationalized and used if the game is to go on: advanced weaponry, drones and nukes; invasive information technology; space-based weapons; and special operations--with contracts stuffed with ongoing and proliferating developmental, tertiary and maintenance products for all of it."-- Provided by publisher.

Machine generated contents note:ch. 1 The Big Picture -- Trillions -- Carnage -- Pollution -- Occupying Afghanistan, Destroying Iraq -- BOSS -- Bombing -- Industry Locations -- Justifications -- Futures Command -- Endnotes -- ch. 2 Magnifying Influence -- Pulling In Military Retirees -- Stacking the Pentagon Deck -- Shattering the Glass Ceiling -- Campaign Finance -- Lobbying -- Pressure Groups -- Banking and Investment Firm Stakeholders -- Corporate Media & Think Tanks -- Endnotes -- ch. 3 Financials and Legalese -- Contract Types -- Multifarious Funding/Incessant Purchasing -- Weaseling the Contracts -- Inculpating Small Business -- Seducing Native Americans -- The (Failed) Audit -- Offices & Administration -- Ensuring Legal Impunity -- Propagandizing Recruitment -- Endnotes -- ch. 4 The Tricks of the Trade -- Cooperation -- Memes -- Threat Fabrication -- Ruses -- Built-In Obsolescence -- Euphemisms -- Endnotes -- ch. 5 Foreign Military Sales -- Rationalizations -- The MQ-4C Triton -- A Single Month's Sales -- Zionism, an Industry Perspective -- A Tale of Two Regimes: D.C. and the House of Saud -- Selling to Countries Within Central Command -- Selling to the U.S. for Operations Within Central Command -- Outposts, Death, and Airwars -- Gotta Get That Cash -- The Key to Military Policy -- Endnotes -- ch. 6 The Academy -- Beantown & Beyond -- Stanford University -- Computing, Colonization, and Language Capacity -- Johns Hopkins, the Star -- Higher Education -- Labs & Centers -- Militarizing Education -- Brain Drain -- Endnotes -- ch. 7 Information Technology -- Information Takeover -- Intel -- Managing Data Overload -- Cloudy with a Chance of Fleecing -- Amazon -- Microsoft -- Google -- A Taste of C4ISR & CACI -- Cyber -- DMT and Special Relationships -- Endnotes -- ch. 8 "Our" Hemisphere -- Southcom -- Brazil -- Honduras -- Colombia -- Mexico -- Special Marketing Ops -- The Puerto Rican Colony -- Guantanamo: Occupied Territory -- Endemic Tunnel Vision -- Endnotes -- ch. 9 The Nuclear Arsenal -- Ogden -- Beyond Reckless -- MDA -- The Modernization Scam -- Endnotes -- ch. 10 Remotely Piloted Vehicles and Space Assets -- Unmanned Aerial Vehicles -- In Your FACE (Fairs, Air Shows, Conferences, Exhibits) -- Variations on a Theme -- Death Toll -- One Season -- Space: The Final Profiteer -- Space Force -- Endnotes -- ch. 11 Two, Three, Many Special Operations -- The Status Quo -- Superheroes or Super Profit? -- Provisioning Hyper-Enabled Operators -- SOFIC 2019 and MARSOF 2030 -- SOF Construction for Nonstop War -- Seeking New Enemies -- Endnotes -- ch. 12 Transitioning -- Education and Organizing -- Elections and Legislation -- Demobilization -- Disobedience -- The Draft -- Demilitarizing Industry -- International Solidarity -- Prosecutions -- Redirecting Funding -- Endnotes.