The Trillion Dollar War Machine:

Just published: The Trillion Dollar War Machine: How Runaway Military Spending Drives America into Foreign Wars and Bankrupts Us at Home by William Hartung and Ben Freeman.

“America spends nearly a trillion dollars a year on its military. This extraordinary spending not only detracts from our ability to address pressing social problems but compels us into foreign wars to justify our vast arsenal. Sold to us in the name of ‘security,’ our military industrial complex actually makes us far less safe.”