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Pentagon’s $1T bonanza: War profiteers cash in as US troops face squalor The War Department’s $1T military budget is a contractors’ gold rush, with tax dollars flowing to private firms while service members increasingly endure appalling conditions, notes The Intercept. private contractors absorbed about 54% of Pentagon discretionary spending from 2020–2024 (Brown University’s Costs of War project) Lockheed Martin, the largest recipient