Biography
William D. Hartung is an author specializing in how corporations & special interests shape Pentagon spending and the global arms trade.
He is the author of several books on the military-industrial complex, including Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex (Nation Books, 2011) and The Trillion Dollar War Machine (Bold Type Books, 2025), with Ben Freeman.
Areas of Expertise
- U.S. arms transfer policy
- Nuclear weapons policy and spending
- Pentagon budget and federal budget priorities
- Economics of Pentagon spending
- The politics of federal budget priorities
- The role of special interests in shaping U.S. foreign policy
- Alternative defense strategies and budgets