دانلود کتاب Six Stops on the National Security Tour: Rethinking Warfare Economies

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Cover
Half Title
Endorsement
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
“National Security”
Notes
1 Overview in Brief
What Does Our Military Budget Buy? A Few Basic Facts
What Forces Has the Pentagon Amassed to Serve this Goal (A Partial List)?
Who Does What
How the Military Gets Its Money
How Did We Get Here? The Military-Industrial Complex Origin Story in Brief
What the U.S. Military Costs
What These Levels Include, and What They Don’t
Is the U.S. Military Budget Enough? Too Much?
Can We Afford It?
Overkill?
We’re Spending Too Much If We’re Wasting It
The Military Industrial Congressional Complex Is Highly Organized to Inflate Military Spending
Conclusion
Notes
2 Connecticut: A Choice Visible On Two Sides of a River
A Slice of Life at HASC
Connecticut’s Military Triangle
Jobs
Two Labor Visionaries
Labor and Economic Conversion
Labor Tackles the End of the Cold War
Harrity’s Other Conversion Experience
Since Then …
Where Are the Machinists?
Conclusion
Openings to a New Future
Notes
3 Johnstown, PA: From Coal to the King of Pork
A Legacy of Coal and Steel
How to Build a Military Economy—From Scratch
Earmarks
Ways and Means
Corrupt? Illegal?
Whither Earmarks?
The Military Market Contracts, 2011–2015
What Now?
A Plan for Defense Diversification
Where Do Things Stand Now?
Johnstown’s Contractors: Three Different Paths
Getting Out
Staying In
Straddling: Johnstown Welding and Fabrication (JWF)
Capitalizing On Change
Conclusion
Notes
4 Southern California: Green Capital of the World Or Aerospace Central?
The Military Economy Crashes
Nakamoto
At the Federal Level
Industrial Policy: Is There Only One?
California in the Vanguard
Adapting Aerospace Technology: Lon Bell
Finance: The Pentagon Versus Everybody Else
California Struggles to Birth a New Industrial Policy
California’s Military Mecca Hangs On
San Diego
Diversification?
Los Angeles
Three of the Big Five Head Over the Hills
Boom and Bust: The B-2 Bomber
Plant 42 Today
The Hidden Drama at Plant 42
Buy American?
Southern California: “Aerospace Capital” Or “Green Economy Capital”?
Conclusion
Notes
5 Pine Bluff: Foreign Policy Comes Home to Arkansas
From Cotton to Chemical Warfare
Chemical Weapons: Their Legacy in Brief
The Pine Bluff Arsenal
Chemical and Biological Weapons Go Out of Business
Pine Bluff Arsenal Gets a New Mission
Now What? Shut the Arsenal Down?
Pine Bluff Stakeholders Convene
The Bioplex
And Beyond the Bioplex?
Doubling Down On the Military Economy
Conclusion
Notes
6 Los Alamos, NM: Weathering a Midlife Crisis
What’s There
The Human Geography
How All This Came to Be Here
Cold War Los Alamos
What Los Alamos Does Now
Secrecy
Los Alamos’ Nuclear Weapons Work
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Work
Beyond Nuclear Research
Contamination
Jobs
Diversification
The Nuclear Complex
How Many, What Kinds, for What Reasons, at What Costs?
Costs
It Could Have Been Different
And It Must Be Different
Conclusion
Notes
7 New Frontiers for Militarism
Militarization of the Border
The Big Pentagon Contractors Cash In
Breaking Into the Club
The Military’s New Frontiers
Hypersonic Weapons
Missile Defense
Artificial Intelligence
New Frontiers of Danger
The Militarization of Space
Stopping a New Arms Race On the Frontiers
Conclusion
Thinking Beyond the Box
Notes
8 Greater Binghamton, NY: Swords Into Plowshares
An Economic Evolution
Swords Into Plowshares: How To, and How Not to
Navigating the Move(s)
Getting a Business Up and Running (Literally)
Sold
The BAE Era Begins
Under New Management
The Setback That Wasn’t
The Flood Plain
Endicott
Industrial Policy for the Next Level
In the Game
Binghamton’s Military Economy and Its Other Ambitions
Conclusion
Notes
9 Conclusion
The Military Dominance Doctrine
Economic Interests
The Fate of U.S. Military Spending
Ways to Cut
Honest Assessors, Including One Long-Term Secretary of Defense, Acknowledge That this Military Budget Hides Plenty of Waste. Robert Gates Served as Defense Secretary—in Both the Bush II and Obama Administrations. In 2009 He Declared This
Cutting Isn’t Enough
Do Military Contractors Have a Role?
But Can the U.S. Addiction to Excessive Military Spending Be Curbed?
Congress
The Administration
Civil Society
Corporations
Public Opinion
The Last Word Is a Question
Notes
Appendix
Index