{"id":775102,"date":"2022-08-14T05:45:55","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T05:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=251795"},"modified":"2022-08-14T05:45:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T05:45:55","slug":"the-spoils-of-war-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/08\/14\/the-spoils-of-war-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spoils of War"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_251798\" style=\"width: 690px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-251798\" class=\"wp-image-251798 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/kevin-schmid-J-NLXWK3ybk-unsplash-680x453.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"453\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-251798\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@lighttouchedphotography\">Kevin Schmid<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Mainstream media coverage of Washington and US foreign policy can sometimes provide useful information on our military-industrial complex\/ Few journalists, however, dig as deeply, comb through as many documents, or spend as many months cultivating sources to uncover the inner works of that labyrinthine, sprawling sector of our economy as Andrew Cockburn, the Washington editor of <em>Harper\u2019s<\/em>. Cockburn\u2019s new book, <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/81622\/9781839763656\"><em>The Spoils of War: Power, Profit, and the American War Machine<\/em><\/a>, collects a decade\u2019s worth of essays from <em>Harper\u2019s<\/em> and <em>The London Review of Books<\/em>. The assembled pieces, each framed with introductory and closing comments from 2021, lay bear the mendacity and greed of the defense bureaucrats and war profiteers who drive U.S. foreign policy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"woocommerce\">\n<div class=\"woocommerce-info wc-memberships-restriction-message wc-memberships-message wc-memberships-content-restricted-message\">\n\t\t\t\tTo read this article, log in <a class=\"always-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/my-account\/\">here<\/a> or subscribe <a class=\"always-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/subscribe\/\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<br \/>If you are logged in but can't read CP+ articles, check the status of your access <a class=\"always-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/my-account\/members-area\/\">here<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies.\t\t    <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/08\/14\/the-spoils-of-war-2\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/08\/14\/the-spoils-of-war-2\/\">The Spoils of War<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/08\/14\/the-spoils-of-war-2\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image by Kevin Schmid.<\/p>\n<p>Mainstream media coverage of Washington and US foreign policy can sometimes provide useful information on our military-industrial complex\/ Few journalists, however, dig as deeply, comb through as many documents, or spend as man&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":956,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[228,229,230],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/956"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":775103,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775102\/revisions\/775103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}