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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 Incredibly Shrinking Defense Industry

analysis | August 1, 2019 | Mark Thompson

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The B-52 as Lazarus

analysis | June 12, 2019 | Mark Thompson

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The Navy’s Incredible Shrinking Drone

analysis | April 16, 2018 | Mark Thompson
U.S. Army Is Trying to Fix Its Afghanistan Trainers’ Career Cul-de-Sac

analysis | April 9, 2018 | Mark Thompson
President Trump’s Flip-Flop on the F-35

analysis | April 2, 2018 | Mark Thompson
The Space Race the Pentagon Doesn’t Want

analysis | March 26, 2018 | Mark Thompson
Jim Mattis Just Got a Lot Lonelier

analysis | March 19, 2018 | Mark Thompson
The Pentagon’s 21st Century Icarus

analysis | March 12, 2018 | Mark Thompson
Still Stupid After All These Years

analysis | March 5, 2018 | Mark Thompson
Boom Service? Navy Prefers to Pass For Now

analysis | February 26, 2018 | Mark Thompson