Category Archives: Military-Industrial Complex

USS Fitzgerald launches missile in missile defense drill; Source: http://navylive.dodlive.mil/2012/10/25/largest-missile-defense-flight-test-in-history/

Part II: The Military-Industrial Complex Strikes Back: North Korea and War for Profit

Confirming B2Wire analysis from April 10, 2013, it appears that North Korea has put away its missiles and has now suddenly become a “non-threat.”  Not so ironically, the appearance and disappearance of the “imminent” threat North Korean missiles posed to the United States directly corresponded with the implementation of Sequestration and defense cuts and then […]

THAAD missile launch in 2005 Source: http://www.mda.mil/

The Military-Industrial Complex Strikes Back: North Korea and War for Profit

Speaking in Washington on April 3, 2013, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said the U.S. can’t afford to dismiss North Korean threats as bluster.  “It only takes being wrong once, and I don’t want to be the secretary of defense who was wrong once, so we will continue to take these threats seriously,” he said.[i]  Secretary […]