The arms industry tends to have government's ear. Why, wonders Dinyar Godrej, when it is so counter-productive?
With the end of the Cold War in 1991, levels of military spending fell by a third. The ‘war on terror’ put paid to that trend.
The most expensive combat aircraft has never been deployed, but at least it creates jobs. Oh really? asks William D Hartung.
Corruption is at the core of the arms trade, according to Andrew Feinstein, who had to sacrifice his political career to fight it.
Raining death from the skies, drones reduce human lives to pixels on a computer screen. Brushing aside legal and ethical questions, countries are falling over themselves to acquire them. Chris Cole reports.
Depleted uranium weapons have left behind a trail of human misery and vituperative debate. What’s not known about them is just as disturbing as what is, discovers Dinyar Godrej.
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