Hartung, William D. How Much Are You Making on the War, Daddy?
New York: Nation Books, 2003. 182 pages.
William Hartung runs the Arms Trade Resource Center at the World
Policy Institute. His first book on the arms industry was published nine
years earlier, when his primary concern was the dramatic growth in the
arms export business on the part of U.S. corporations. This book, written
as the war on terrorism is getting underway, has a similar emphasis. Since
the 2000 election, however, the neocons are pushing policy in Washington.
They call themselves "The Vulcans," and they created a foreign policy for
the inexperienced new president. This name came from a statue in Condoleezza
Rice's home town of Birmingham, Alabama. Rice, by the way, also had an oil
tanker named after her by a grateful Chevron Corporation, where she was a
board member.
Between vice-president Richard Cheney from Halliburton, and Defense
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld (also involved with major corporations during
the 1990s), it was predictable that the arms industry could look forward
to higher profits. In addition to chapters on Cheney and Rumsfeld, there
are also chapters on the Carlyle Group, Richard Perle and the Defense
Policy Board, right-wing think tanks, and a single chapter on the big
three weapons-makers -- Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Northrop.
ISBN 1-56025-561-7
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