American Military Policy and the War on Terrorism

Karen Kwiatkowski

2/23/2010

The Terror-Industrial Complex

The phrase “war on terror” has been used to justify trillions of dollars in spending, hundreds of thousands of new government positions, and thousands of new government contracts. At the same time, the “war on terror” has produced very little in terms of new technology or enhanced security, has vastly increased the degree of national centralization, and has created many new permanent trees and branches in the gnarled world of federal and state institutions.

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