For too long our foreign policy has been under the thumb of the Saudis’ oil and their wars. Getting out from under will require putting inflated claims about jobs and arms sales in their place.

In The Nation, Bill Hartung reviews IPS Associate Fellow Miriam Pemberton’s new book.

Miriam Pemberton, Institute for Policy Studies Associate Fellow, “Six Stops on the National Security Tour: Rethinking Warfare Economies”

While the U.S. has pumped trillions into a world-leading military, China has invested heavily in medical supplies, solar power, and many other industries.

The private interests thriving on continuous war preparation are thwarting progress towards a less militarized world.

Years of neglecting public infrastructure has undercut the U.S. manufacturing base.

A group of national security experts from left, right, and center says cutting some of America’s 800 far-flung outposts will save money and make us safer.

Rather than returning the savings to the taxpayers, the plan means to plow those savings back into the Pentagon budget.

Techies who’ve come of age in a country perpetually at war are saying they don’t want their talents used to kill people.

For years, it has been the only federal agency that can’t pass an audit.

The Pentagon’s Office of Economic Adjustment mostly missed its chance to wean communities off America’s dependence on defense economics.

Military spending will reach $700 billion under the deal to reopen the government, despite reports of hundreds of billions in Pentagon waste.

Backing down from nuclear war would make us a lot safer than piling more money into the Pentagon.

Facing financial ruin and the ruins of South Texas, some hawks want to throw more money at the military. That’s ludicrous.

Throwing money at the Pentagon while gutting other programs that protect Americans shouldn’t make anyone feel safer.

The president says he’ll protect our interests against the boondoggle weapons makers. Don’t believe him.

If Congress gets out of the way.

The brass asked for a report on eliminating waste. When investigators found some, the military buried it.

As our climate crisis plays out in increased refugee flows and natural disasters, the government is still wasting money on ineffective, traditional military security.

The Military and Climate Security Budgets Compared