Join us for a virtual book discussion with Institute for Policy Studies Associate Fellow Miriam Pemberton, author of the just released “Six Stops on the National Security Tour: Rethinking Warfare Economies.” FCNL’s Legislative Director for Foreign Policy Diana Ohlbaum will serve as a panelist.
The U.S. military economy incorporates hundreds of American communities. This book connects our national security apparatus to the local level via deeply reported portraits of six locations across the country.
“Six Stops on the National Security Tour: Rethinking Warfare Economies” includes an overview of how the military is structured, how it perpetuates itself, how its budget is made, and what it costs. Pemberton traces the lines of connection between her tour stops and our country’s foreign policy, industrial policy, and budget priorities.
She also examines the meaning of national security in the current moment, as climate change becomes what the military itself calls “an urgent and growing threat.” And she demonstrates how redirecting our militarized foreign and industrial policy toward climate security can help these communities become part of the solution.