The Tom Woods Show, episode 923.

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Hi everybody, Tom Woods here. Talking today about the military budget, man,

this thing just keeps going up and up. It's almost as if there are certain vested interests that

want to keep increasing the military budget. Well, we're going to talk about the details here,

get into some of the numbers and what's going on with William Hartung,

who is the director of the Arms and Security Project at the Center for International Policy.

He just wrote a very good article on this subject of the military budget and the numbers and

where the money's going and very important questions like that. So you're definitely

going to want to read the article. We'll link to it on the show notes page. He's also the author of

Prophets of War, Prophets, P-R-O-P-H-E-T-S, but as you'll see, it could go either way.

Prophets of War, Lockheed Martin, and the Making of the Military Industrial Complex. Bill,

welcome to the show. Well, thanks for having me. It seems that no matter what happens, no matter what

happens, no matter who it is, no matter what the promises are, we get a bigger military budget.

Now, in this case, Donald Trump promised that he was going to increase the

military budget. And I think most people who knew anything about the subject were just shaking their

heads in utter disbelief. What possible reason would you have for doing this, given when you compare

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