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Career. Cockburn has written numerous books and articles, principally about national security. He has also produced numerous documentary films, principally in partnership with his wife Leslie Cockburn, as well as co-produced the 1997 thriller The Peacemaker, starring George Clooney and Nicole Kidman, for DreamWorks.
Journalist Andrew Cockburn discusses his book The Spoils of War, which exposes the power, profit and inefficiency of the U.S. defense system. He reveals how the military-industrial complex drives war, waste and corruption, and how it undermines American security and democracy.
Andrew Cockburn is the Washington Editor of Harper's magazine and the author of many articles and books on national security, including the New York Times Editor's Choice Rumsfeld and The Threat, which destroyed the myth of Soviet military superiority underpinning the Cold War.
27 de oct. de 2021 · Andrew Cockburn's new book, "The Spoils of War: How Profits Rather Than Empire Define Success for the Pentagon", is an incredible compendium of avarice and folly. He reveals how the U.S. military and its contractors have generated a huge and complex bureaucracy, with war-fighting efficiency low on the priority list. He cites examples of wasteful spending, incompetence, and corruption in the Pentagon and the weapons industry.
Ultimately, more than 120 projects were canceled, and construction ground to a halt. “The failure of the U.S. nuclear power program ranks as the largest managerial disaster in business history, a disaster on a monumental scale,” Forbes magazine commented in 1985, a year before Chernobyl. “Only the blind, or the biased, can now think that ...
10 de mar. de 2015 · Andrew Cockburn. Henry Holt and Company, Mar 10, 2015 - History - 320 pages. An essential and page-turning narrative on the history of drone warfare from journalist Andrew Cockburn,...
21 de sept. de 2021 · Andrew Cockburn is the Washington Editor of Harper’s magazine and the author of many articles and books on national security, including including Rumsfeld, a New York Times Editor’s Choice, The...
