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Ben Freeman on Unfettered Speech Podcast

What do we actually buy when we spend a trillion dollars on the Pentagon? Ben Freeman, director at the Quincy Institute and co-author of The Trillion Dollar War Machine, joins us to track the cash, the influence, and the narratives that keep America on a war footing while everyday security slips at home.

If you wanted a true Department of Defense that was really just concerned with protecting the homeland, you could very easily cut the Pentagon budget in half.