Volume 16, Number 4 · March 11, 1971
In the Bowels of Behemoth
By I.F. Stone
TFX Contract Investigation Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
Report of the Committee on Government Operations made by its
Report No. 91-1496. 91st Congress, 2nd Session
The War Profiteers
by Richard F. Kaufman
Bobbs-Merrill, 288 pp., $8.50
The Military Establishment: Its Impact on American Society
by Adam Yarmolinsky
Harper & Row, 434 pp., $10.00
The Pentagon Watchers: Students Report on the National Security State
edited by Leonard S. Rodberg, edited by Derek Shearer
Doubleday, 416 pp., $1.95 (paper)
How Much is Enough? Shaping the Defense Program
by Alain C. Enthoven, by K. Wayne Smith
Harper & Row, 364 pp., $8.95
Mass murder, to paraphrase that famous General Electric commercial, has become our most important product. The Pentagon dwarfs the biggest of American big businesses. In addition to some 3 million men and women in uniform, it employs almost twice as many civilians as General Motors. In 1968 its expenditures were $10 billion greater than the gross revenues that year of America's five largest corporations combined.[1] It is not surprising that every investigation of so monstrous an enterprise uncovers a gargantuan mess.
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