September 20, 2022
Reining In the War Economy
In The Nation, Bill Hartung reviews IPS Associate Fellow Miriam Pemberton's new book.
U.S. Air Force / U.S. Department of Defense / Flickr / Senior Airman Jonathan Lovelady
In The Nation, Bill Hartung praises IPS Associate Fellow Miriam Pemberton’s new book, Six Stops on the National Security Tour: Rethinking Warfare Economies.
Bill writes: “Pemberton has spent most of her career doing research and advocacy on how best to reduce America’s economic dependency on Pentagon spending. Her book includes both case studies of communities that have tried to reduce the Pentagon’s grip on their local economies and big-picture policy prescriptions to make a transition to one in which members of Congress feel freer to vote for more rational approaches to defense without paying a political price.”
Read the full article in The Nation.
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