Mises Wire
Author:
William D. Hartung
Mandy Smithberger
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For the Pentagon, happy days are here again (if they ever left). With a budget totaling more than $1.4 trillion for the next two years, the department is riding high, even as it attempts to set the stage for yet more spending increases in the years to come. With such enormous sums now locked in, Secretary of Defense (and former Raytheon lobbyist )