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The Military-Industrial Circus

The Military-Industrial Circus is a regular column by Pulitzer-prize winning National Security Analyst Mark Thompson for CDI at POGO.

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The Key Reason the U.S. Lost in Afghanistan

analysis | May 25, 2021

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Joe Biden’s Nuclear Triad

analysis | March 4, 2021

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Adding up the Cost of Our Never-Ending Wars

analysis | December 17, 2019
Pentagon Procurement and the Laws of Physics

analysis | November 18, 2019
Will Third Time Be the Charm for Pentagon’s Star Wars Bullet?

analysis | October 10, 2019
The Incredibly Shrinking Defense Industry

analysis | August 1, 2019
The B-52 as Lazarus

analysis | June 12, 2019
How Not to Win the Afghan War

analysis | May 20, 2019
A New Kind of Nuclear War

analysis | April 16, 2019
“Fill ‘Er Up!” Why It’s Taken the Pentagon Nearly Two Decades to Buy a New Aerial Tanker

analysis | March 19, 2019