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Mandy Smithberger

Mandy Smithberger is the director of the Straus Military Reform Project at the Project On Government Oversight (POGO).

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Why the Pentagon budget never goes down

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Aerial view of a military building, The Pentagon, Washington DC, USA (Getty Images)

More money for the Pentagon in the pandemic moment?

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Democratic presidential hopeful former US Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. speaks during the second Democratic primary debate of the 2020 presidential campaign season hosted by NBC News at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami, Florida, June 27, 2019. (Getty/Saul Loeb)

Shrinking the Pentagon: Will the Biden administration dare cut military spending now?

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Donald Trump (Getty Images/Salon)

Our new national (in)security

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U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper holds a media briefing at the Pentagon August 28, 2019 in Arlington, Virginia. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

COVID-19 means good times for the Pentagon

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Beware the Pentagon’s pandemic profiteers

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Creating a national insecurity state: spending more, seeing less

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How the military-industrial complex gets away with murder in contract after contract

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U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper holds a media briefing at the Pentagon August 28, 2019 in Arlington, Virginia. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Beware of defense secretaries pledging reform

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Boondoggle, Inc.: A dollar-by-dollar tour of the national security state

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Our man from Boeing: Has the arms industry captured Trump’s Pentagon?

William D. Hartung, Mandy Smithberger