Who benefited from The post-9/11 wars?
Shows who gained or lost, and who disputes a study that says so, in the words of whoever says it.
Not that anyone caused it.
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Each account
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According to William D. Hartung
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Boeing
benefited from
Scholarship & press
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Hartung writes of the whole surge in Pentagon spending after 9/11, not only contracts in the war zones. He is an advocate for a less militarized foreign policy.
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General Dynamics
benefited from
Scholarship & press
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Hartung writes of the whole surge in Pentagon spending after 9/11, not only contracts in the war zones. He is an advocate for a less militarized foreign policy.
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Kellogg Brown & Root
benefited from
Scholarship & press
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Hartung writes of the whole surge in Pentagon spending after 9/11, not only contracts in the war zones. He is an advocate for a less militarized foreign policy.
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Lockheed Martin
benefited from
Scholarship & press
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Hartung writes of the whole surge in Pentagon spending after 9/11, not only contracts in the war zones. He is an advocate for a less militarized foreign policy.
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Northrop Grumman
benefited from
Scholarship & press
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Hartung writes of the whole surge in Pentagon spending after 9/11, not only contracts in the war zones. He is an advocate for a less militarized foreign policy.
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RTX
benefited from
Scholarship & press
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Hartung writes of the whole surge in Pentagon spending after 9/11, not only contracts in the war zones. He is an advocate for a less militarized foreign policy.
Lost. No account in our sources says who lost.
Proof 1 source
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Profits of War: Corporate Beneficiaries of the Post-9/11 Pentagon Spending Surge, Costs of War Project, Brown University, 13 Sep 2021.
Scholarship & press
The benefits of the post-9/11 surge in Pentagon spending have been highly concentrated. One-quarter to one-third of all Pentagon contracts in recent years have gone to just five major weapons contractors: Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics, Raytheon, and Northrop Grumman.
Companies benefiting from the buildup of the past 20 years range from weapons manufacturers like Raytheon and Lockheed Martin, to logistics and reconstruction firms like Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) and Bechtel, to armed private security contractors like Blackwater and Dyncorp.
How this answer is built
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