Yahoo Web Search

Search results

  1. Nov 5, 2021 · Journalist Andrew Cockburn discusses his new book “The Spoils of War: Power, Profit, and the American War Machine.”

  2. Mar 1, 2022 · Cockburn says the United States and its allies broke promises made in the 1990s not to expand the military alliance into Eastern Europe, setting the stage for an eventual confrontation.

  3. Mar 21, 2024 · The word ‘disruptive’ crops up a lot in Andrew Krepinevich’s exhaustive treatise on military innovation. His contention is that the adoption of innovative military technology ahead of rivals leads to victory. In support of his argument he delves into areas usually frequented only by specialists.

    • April 30, 2023
  4. Sep 21, 2021 · In The Spiols of War Andrew Cockburn brilliantly dissects the intentions behind Washington’s martial appetites. The American war machine can only be understood in terms of the “private passions” and “interests” of those who control it—principally a passionate interest in money.

    • (260)
    • Hardcover
  5. Sep 25, 2021 · Notoriously, the over-engineered F-35 doesn’t even fly right, but, says Cockburn, it “has one attribute that outweighs all other considerations: its enormous cost and the consequent political...

  6. Oct 5, 2021 · We spoke with Andrew Cockburn on Sept. 29, 2021, as the Senate Armed Services Committee was grilling Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, about the US military withdrawal from Afghanistan after 20 years and trillions of dollars spent, which they characterized as “a logistical ...

  7. People also ask

  8. Oct 27, 2021 · Andrew Cockburn and Jon Schwarz discuss the legacy of Colin Powell and how private defense companies have historically maximized profits from horrific wars.

  1. People also search for