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US Arms Makers Invest in a New Cold War

• consortiumnews.com By Jonathan Marshall

The U.S. military has won only a single major war since the end of World War II (the Gulf War of 1990-91). But U.S. military contractors continue to win major budget wars in Congress nearly every year, proving that no force on earth can resist their lobbying prowess and political clout.

Consider the steady march to victory of the biggest single weapons program in history — the planned purchase of advanced Lockheed-Martin F-35 jets by the Air Force, Navy, and Marines at a total projected cost of more than $1 trillion.

The Air Force and Marines have both declared the Joint Strike Fighter ready for combat, and Congress is now forking over billions of dollars a year to acquire what is slated to become a fleet of 2,400 jets.

Yet the world's most expensive fighter bomber still doesn't work properly and may never perform as advertised. That's not "dezinformatsiya" from Russian "information warfare" specialists. That's the official opinion of the Pentagon's top weapons evaluator, Michael Gilmore.


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