I believe the use of the word "fraudulent" was indeed correct here. It was a program initiated by the post-WW2 military industrial complex to use a national cri

I believe the use of the word "fraudulent" was indeed correct here. It was a program initiated by the post-WW2 military industrial complex to use a national crisis (the Cold War) to profit and regularize excessive defense spending, as per standard neoliberal tactics of the time. The program spent a lot of money, made a lot of large visible moves, and in the end, did not produce one single thing, offensive or defensive. Tax dollars (not) at work.