War is a Racket - Smedley Butler Over 80 percent of four-star retirees are employed in defense industry[0]. Biden continues the bipartisan tradition of putting

War is a Racket - Smedley Butler Over 80 percent of four-star retirees are employed in defense industry[0]. Biden continues the bipartisan tradition of putting Defense Contractors in top posts.[0] Lloyd Austin was on the board of Raytheon. "Before Austin, another person with ties to Raytheon, the contractor’s chief lobbyist Mark Esper, held the reins of the Pentagon. Esper’s predecessors, Patrick Shanahan and James Mattis, had respectively been a senior vice president at Boeing and a board member of General Dynamics. Ellen Lord, the former president and CEO of Textron Systems, oversaw the Pentagon’s weapon acquisitions. ... Frank Kendall, chosen by Biden to lead the Air Force. Kendall, a former vice president at Raytheon who served as Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics for President Barack Obama, has spent the last few years as an adviser and consultant to defense contractors. Kendall’s disclosures show that the bulk of his income has come from advising Northrop Grumman, followed by income from Renaissance Strategic Advisors, an investment firm that arranges mergers and acquisitions in the defense sector."[1] [0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/10/04/retired-generals-defense-contractors/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/10/04/... [1] https://theintercept.com/2021/05/28/biden-pentagon-defense-contractors/ https://theintercept.com/2021/05/28/biden-pentagon-defense-c...