William D. Hartung, Nick Cleveland-Stout, and Taylor Giorno
Nick Cleveland-Stout is a researcher at the Quincy Institute.
Taylor Giorno is a researcher at the Quincy Institute.
William D. Hartung, a TomDispatch regular, is a Senior Research Fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, and the author most recently of the Quincy Institute Issue Brief “Pathways to Pentagon Spending Reductions: Removing the Obstacles.” His most recent book is Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military Industrial Complex.
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