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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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Racism in the Ranks

analysis | July 8, 2020

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Brother, Can You Spare a Missile?

analysis | June 1, 2020

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The Four Horsemen of the (North Korean Nuclear) Apocalypse

analysis | December 11, 2017
Military Readiness from the Grunts’ Perspective

analysis | December 4, 2017
A Tale of Two Bombs

analysis | November 27, 2017
Whose Finger(s) Should Be On the Nuclear Button?

analysis | November 20, 2017
MIA: Missing Information on Afghanistan

analysis | November 13, 2017
A Nuclear-Weapons Halloween

analysis | November 6, 2017
Watching the Defense Department’s Waste Line

analysis | October 27, 2017
The Nation’s Doomed 350-Ship Navy

analysis | October 23, 2017