[Salon] insidious military embed program

[Kelley Vlahos <vlahos@quincyinst.org>]

The Executive Fellows program at the Pentagon has placed more than 300 senior military officials in corporate America -- most of them defense companies, shocker -- as "fellows" to "glean insights" about business to bring back to the federal government. But really it's turned out that these embeds end up serving as free lobbying for War Inc. representing their programs, wish lists, contract desires, etc., to the highest levels of DoD decision making! As they say, what a racket.

Please take a look at this new piece by Brett Heinz which is based on his own research with Ben Freeman on this very underreported, 30-yr fellowship program. https://responsiblestatecraft.org/pentagon-corporate-america/

All the best,

Kelley

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