War is a racket. In this episode of War Industry Muster, we analyze recent mergers and acquisitions within the U.S. war industry.

Mergers & Acquisitions __ War Industry Muster, Episode 5

In this episode we analyze how people justify working for the U.S. war industry. 

The war industry is comprised of the corporations and academic institutions that develop, market, and sell goods and services to the U.S Department of War and allied regimes around the world.

Hundreds of thousands of people are cogs in the U.S. war industry. These people occupy many jobs within the U.S. war industry, including academics, analysts, armed mercenaries, astrophysicists, engineers, lawyers, lobbyists, linguists, mathematicians, public relations specialists, factory workers, technicians, and administrative assistants.

From academics to engineers to analysts to administrative assistants, how do people justify working for the war industry? 

War. Is. A. Racket.

How to Work for the War Industry __ War Industry Muster, Episode 9

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“Brain drain” happens when industry herds intelligent people toward purposes of war, like when a graduate of engineering school goes to work for a war corporation instead of a municipality. Humanity loses skilled human beings as a result. Brain drain is a great tragedy, and the war industry’s biggest success. In Boston, the U.S. Air Force alone funds ninety different research projects, according to the Air Force Secretary. That’s just the publicly declared actions of one branch of the military in one city. The “largest number of mathematicians in the world” works for NSA. Lockheed Martin alone employs nearly 50,000 scientists and engineers. Imagine if these minds were working on problems and projects for the betterment of humanity and the planet, instead of devising more ingenious ways to surveil or murder. Imagine the possibilities.

Effective science is based on free, open discussion. Pentagon funding and stipulations (compartmentalization, shoehorned focus, classification, near-term deadlines, stovepiped fields) oppose free, open discussion. War science is suffocated at best, stagnant and deviant at worst. Breakthroughs require the open, secure inquiry and inquisitive self-determination of an unrestrained academic. Major breakthroughs do not happen regularly when academics are tied to military-industry funding priorities, schedules, and narrow mental confines. Military and industry shun and condemn the polymath, the free thinker, and the uninhibited tinkerer. Military and industry embrace and fund the careerist, the complicit academic, the rigid functionary, the greedy corporatist, and the aspiring bureaucrat.

Understanding the War Industry - Ch. 6 excerpt: Brain Drain

The U.S. war industry is comprised of the corporations and academic institutions that develop, market, and sell goods and services to the U.S military establishment and allied capitalist regimes around the world.