The Pentagon's merchants of war
Forget about the United States Department of Defense's Stealth bombers and its "black budget" which swallows billions of dollars without accountability, there's another stealth side to the Pentagon - the corporate side where little-known companies gobble up US tax dollars at phenomenal rates. Most of the time, large or small, they fly under the radar and are seldom even identified as defense contractors. Nick Turse pins down five of the billion-dollar babies that profit from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.(Jun 25, '08)