New at Antiwar.com

My latest discusses the world’s most wasteful, unaccountable organization

My latest article was published today (April 9, 2025) at Antiwar.com. Here’s a preview—I hope you’ll check it out:

The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) Military Expenditure Database is continuously revised and measures “the volume of resources used for military activities” rather than limiting itself to, for example, the Department of Defense budget or spending in the U.S. For 2023, for example, SIPRI reported $916 billion in U.S. military spending, a value higher than that associated with Pentagon spending alone. Some researchers find that the value of U.S. military spending is in fact much higher, if it includes other expenditures such as the NASA budget and billions in Pentagon-approved weapons sales to its friends and allies; including these additional military outlays pushes the number for fiscal year 2022 to about $1.6 trillion.