This is hell. Doing our best to understand what capitalism depends on us not understanding. Since 1996,

this is hell and what the current stage of capitalism apparently depends on us not understanding,

is that much of the economic growth we have been seen, fueled by Silicon Valley has been, as our guest today argues,

scams and boondoggles. The market, as it stands today, also would rather we do not recognize

the increasingly tight relationship between Silicon Valley, Pete Heggseth's War Department,

and private finance, especially wealthy venture capitalists, here to help us understand that relationship

and why we should be a lot more concerned about our militarized future. We are very happy to have on

the show. Shana Marshall, author of the Security and Context policy paper, A Violent Convergence,

How Silicon Valley and Private Finance are reshaping war. Welcome to this is hell, Shana.

Hi, Chuck.

Great to have you on the show, and Shana is one of a small group of people who has been a guest on our show, who has actually listened to our show in the past.

So that's a really great thing.

Always wonderful.

So Shana, you start by writing that most academic research

into war and its causes focuses on geostrategie, ethnic cleavages, climate-driven resource

disputes or game theoretic models of elite decision-making. Despite significant work done by

journalists and advocacy organizations around the political economic foundations of war.

Relatively few scholars adopt this approach. If so much has been done on the political economic

foundations of war to you, what explains why relatively few scholars adopt this approach? Why not

discuss study research, write about the role of the political

economy of any nation in the case of the United States? Capitalism has on war. After all,

the political economy is a dominant feature in a society. So why do you think this political

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