War Profiteers Who Helped Create ISIS Will Be Given $7.5 Billion More of Taxpayer Money to Help Fight It
Meet the 0.01 Percent: War Profiteers
Pentagon to Request $7.5 Billion, a 50% Hike, in Fight Against ISIS
“This will be critical as our updated coalition military campaign plan kicks in. For example, we’ve recently been hitting ISIL with so many GPS-guided smart bombs and laser-guided rockets that we’re starting to run low on the ones that we use against terrorists the most," Carter said.
"So we’re investing $1.8 billion in FY 2017 to buy over 45,000 more of them.”
“All of this together by the end of 2017 will let us rapidly form a highly-capable combined arms ground force that can respond theater-wide if necessary,” Carter said.
“We don’t have the luxury of just one opponent, or the choice between current fights and future fights -- we have to do both. And that’s what our budget is designed to do," Carter said.
10. United Technologies (UTX) -- aircraft, electronics, engines
9. L-3 Communications (LLL) -- electronics
8. Finmeccanica -- aircraft, artillery, engines, electronics, vehicles and missiles
7. EADS -- aircraft, electronics, missiles and space
6. Northrop Grumman (NOC) -- aircraft, electronics, missiles, ships, space
5. Raytheon (RTN) -- electronics, missiles
4. General Dynamics (GD) -- artillery, electronics, vehicles, small arms, ships
3. BAE Systems -- aircraft, artillery, electronics, vehicles, missiles, ships
2. Boeing (BA) -- aircraft, electronics, missiles, space
1. Lockheed Martin (LMT) -- aircraft, electronics, missiles, space
War Profiteers Are Getting Rich Off ISIS
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