Fact Sheets and Reports
Eight Things You Should Know About Defense Spending and Inflation by the Brown University Costs of War Project
Ukraine War Not a Reason to Increase Pentagon Budget by Public Citizen and Women’s Action for New Directions
Military-Industrial Complex Cinches Nearly 450,000% Return on Investment by Rick Claypool and Savannah Wooten at Public Citizen
The Pentagon Doesn’t Need More Money. These Things Do by the National Priorities Project
The Pentagon Gets More Money, and Americans Pay the Price by Katrina Vanden Heuvel
We Must Stop Showering the Military With Money by Farhad Manjoo
House military spending bill is a boon to the arms industry by Bill Hartung at the Quincy Institute
Rein in runaway Pentagon spending by Robert Weissman and Savannah Wooten at Public Citizen
Polling
Americans Widely Reject Proposals for More Pentagon Spending conducted Data for Progress and Public Citizen (2022)
Most U.S. Adults Support Pentagon Spending Cuts conducted by the American Friends Service Committee
Americans overwhelmingly do not derive their sense of safety from military investment (#4) by the Federation of American Scientists (2021)
The American People Agree: Cut the Pentagon’s Budget conducted by Data for Progress and U.S. Representative Mark Pocan (2021)