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740<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><span class="has-underline">For the first</span> time, the Pentagon budget topped <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/military-defense-spending-budget-series">$1 trillion</a>, and private contractors now receive <a href="https://quincyinst.org/2025/07/08/new-research-military-contractors-received-over-half-of-pentagon-spending-since-2020/">more than half</a> of all the tax dollars flowing to the Pentagon.</p>
741<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Few have profited from this privatization of the U.S. military more than the CEOs of Pentagon contractors.</p>
742<p class="wp-block-paragraph">While these companies often <a href="https://www.ispot.tv/ad/ZlSN/lockheed-martin-f-35-lightning-2-mission-ready-interoperable-and-combat-proven">advertise</a> their work as supporting the troops, the fact is that many service members live in <a href="https://www.pogo.org/fact-sheets/fact-sheet-how-housing-conditions-are-failing-military-families">appalling</a> housing conditions, while military–industrial contractors’ profits soar and their CEOs live in luxury.</p>
743<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The lavish lifestyles of these CEOs is laid bare in the new mockumentary “Lords of War,” co-produced by the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and The Intercept, that lampoons an industry held aloft by hundreds of billions of public funds every year.</p>
744<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“Lords of War” connects <a href="https://theintercept.com/2021/10/27/pentagon-budget-book-spoils-war-andrew-cockburn/">exorbitant</a> Pentagon <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/12/07/ukraine-weapons-russia-china-ndaa/">spending</a> to the luxury enjoyed by the CEOs of its top contractors. As the film notes, Lockheed Martin is regularly the largest recipient of Pentagon contracts, raking in $75 billion in revenue in 2025 — more than 72 percent of which came from the U.S. government.</p>
745<p class="wp-block-paragraph">As “Lords of War”’s faux real estate aficionado explains, Lockheed’s CEOs have used their $20-million-plus compensation packages to buy luxury real estate from the D.C. suburbs to the shores of Miami.</p>
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760<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Despite its care-free tone, the film highlights very real problems within the military–industrial complex. As <a href="https://costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/paper/profits-war-top-beneficiaries-pentagon-spending-2020-2024">research</a> by William Hartung and Stephen Semler for Brown University’s Costs of War Project showed, 54 percent of the Pentagon’s annual spending now goes to private contractors — up from 41 percent in the 1990s.</p>
761<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The top Pentagon contractors’ revenues and <a href="https://theintercept.com/2021/08/16/afghanistan-war-defense-stocks/">stock prices</a> also skyrocketed as they’ve begun to devour an ever-larger share of the military budget.</p>
762<p class="wp-block-paragraph">They converted their revenue from the military into line items on their own budgets that do nothing to improve U.S. national security: <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/lobbying?cycle=2024&amp;ind=D">armies of lobbyists</a> that now outnumber all members of Congress by a nearly 2-to-1 margin; billions of dollars in <a href="https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/warren-hawley-introduce-bipartisan-bill-to-limit-stock-buybacks-in-defense-contracting-following-president-trumps-executive-order/">stock buybacks</a>; and, of course, CEO compensation packages on par with those of NFL quarterbacks.</p>
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806<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The contrast of these CEOs’ rock-star lifestyles — “Lords of War” reveals that one chief executive bought Lenny Kravitz’s Miami mansion — with those of the military service members they purport to serve is striking.</p>
807<p class="wp-block-paragraph">As the film notes, former Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson received $33.7 million in compensation in 2015, which is more than 150 times as much as the average compensation package for an enlisted service member. While Hewson and other Pentagon contractor CEOs have been buying up mansions, the <a href="https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2026-06/62260-Military-Compensation.pdf">basic pay</a> of service members has been relatively stagnant for the past 20 years when controlling for inflation.</p>
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869<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Worse, the conditions service members have been living in are deteriorating. A 2024 <a href="https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-25-106208">report</a> from the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that two-thirds of service members think their housing is unaffordable. And service members often face “long commutes, leave families behind in other states, and work 2 jobs to afford housing,” according to the GAO report.</p>
870<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A July 2026 <a href="https://www.ossoff.senate.gov/press-releases/new-sen-ossoffs-investigation-uncovers-dangerous-conditions-in-privatized-military-housing-on-ft-benning-ft-stewart/">Senate investigation</a>, meanwhile, revealed dangerous living conditions at military bases in Georgia, including “reports of lead exposure affecting newborn health, severe mold contamination leading to emergency room visits, flooding in living areas, and more.”</p>
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885<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Wartime environments have been no better, as evidenced by the deplorable conditions — including food shortages and <a href="https://theintercept.com/2026/09/15/iran-war-us-military-bases/">inoperable plumbing</a> — during the USS Abraham Lincoln’s <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/us/politics/uss-abraham-lincoln-iran.html">extended deployment</a> near Iran, which ultimately led <a href="https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2026/08/11/multiple-uss-abraham-lincoln-sailors-have-tried-to-go-overboard-amid-extended-deployment-families-say/">multiple sailors</a> to attempt to <a href="https://www.ms.now/news/navy-sailor-jumped-overboard-uss-lincoln-discipline-punishment">jump overboard</a>.</p>
886<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Unfortunately, it’s your tax dollars that are paying for this gaping chasm between the lives of contractor CEOs and the troops.</p>
887<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“Lords of War” is one of the few films about military–industrial 
887complex that you find hilarious, but its subject is no laughing matter. The <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/12/07/ukraine-weapons-russia-china-ndaa/">private firms we’re entrusting</a> with U.S. national security are doing more to <a href="https://theintercept.com/2021/08/16/afghanistan-war-defense-stocks/">defend their own share prices</a> than they are to <a href="https://theintercept.com/2021/10/27/pentagon-budget-book-spoils-war-andrew-cockburn/">defend the nation</a>. If we keep trusting this <a href="https://theintercept.com/2021/11/07/military-spending-pentagon-afghanistan/">broken system</a> to keep us safe, then, ultimately, the joke is on us.</p>
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1772      <img width="768" height="384" src="https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/GettyImages-2296147449-e1790193047881.jpg?fit=768%2C384" class="w-full xl:group-hover:opacity-90 xl:group-focus:opacity-90 object-cover aspect-[2/1] wp-post-image" alt="Dozens of entertainment workers join a, &quot;Block the Merger,&quot; to protest settlement merger for Paramount Skydance outside the Melrose Gate at Paramount Studios in Hollywood on September 22, 2026. The protest/rally happened a day after California Atty. General Rob Bonta, and a 12-state coalition, announced a major court-enforceable settlement with Paramount Skydance, resolving an antitrust lawsuit that had blocked the company&#039;s $111 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery." decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/GettyImages-2296147449-e1790193047881.jpg?w=1024 1024
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1780            The Ellisons Could Make a Killing in Big Surveillance With the Paramount Merger          </h3>
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1784          <p class="text-accentDark xl:text-accentLight not-italic inline-block">Seth Stern</p>
1785          <span>- <time datetime="2026-09-23 17:34:27">Sep. 23</time></span>
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1788
1789      <p class="flex-1 font-serif text-base tracking-[0.01em] leading-6">With the Paramount–Warner Bros. merger set to proceed, the Ellisons can stoke Americans’ fears — and sell the government its solution.</p>
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1803            DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.          </h3>
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1807          <p class="text-accentDark xl:text-accentLight not-italic inline-block">Meghnad Bose, Macy Hanzlik-Barend</p>
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1812      <p class="flex-1 font-serif text-base tracking-[0.01em] leading-6">In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mamdani.</p>
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1826              Targeting Iran            </p>
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1828            Another U.S. Soldier Is Dead as Iran War Casualties Rise          </h3>
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1832          <p class="text-accentDark xl:text-accentLight not-italic inline-block">Nick Turse</p>
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1837      <p class="flex-1 font-serif text-base tracking-[0.01em] leading-6">An additional 66 U.S. personnel were wounded in action this month, pushing the official count of Iran war casualties above 850.</p>
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2018            $15          </label>
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2024            id="inline-wall-25-one-time"
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2032            class="uppercase flex-grow mb-2 px-2 pt-2.5 pb-3 text-center border-2 font-sans text-[25px] font-bold flex leading-none cursor-pointer text-accentLight border-accentLight hover:bg-accentLight hover:text-white peer-checked:bg-accentLight peer-checked:text-white"
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2035            $25          </label>
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2048            class="uppercase flex-grow mb-2 px-2 pt-2.5 pb-3 text-center border-2 font-sans text-[25px] font-bold flex leading-none cursor-pointer text-accentLight border-accentLight hover:bg-accentLight hover:text-white peer-checked:bg-accentLight peer-checked:text-white"
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2051            $50          </label>
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2064            class="uppercase flex-grow mb-2 px-2 pt-2.5 pb-3 text-center border-2 font-sans text-[25px] font-bold flex leading-none cursor-pointer text-accentLight border-accentLight hover:bg-accentLight hover:text-white peer-checked:bg-accentLight peer-checked:text-white"
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2067            $100          </label>
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2071      class="flex gap-1.5 hidden"
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2188    Yes, count me In    <span class="icon-TI_Arrow_02_Right"></span>
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2253            $25          </label>
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2269            $50          </label>
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2282            class="uppercase flex-grow mb-2 px-2 pt-2.5 pb-3 text-center border-2 font-sans text-[25px] font-bold flex leading-none cursor-pointer text-white border-white hover:bg-white hover:text-accentLight peer-checked:bg-white peer-checked:text-accentLight"
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2325            $8          </label>
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2342            $10          </label>
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2358            $15          </label>
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2396          Monthly        </label>
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2406    Yes, count me in    <span class="icon-TI_Arrow_02_Right"></span>
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