{"id":93259,"date":"2026-06-19T07:38:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T06:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=93259"},"modified":"2026-06-19T07:38:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T06:38:51","slug":"what-has-the-military-industrial-complex-got-to-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/06\/19\/what-has-the-military-industrial-complex-got-to-offer\/","title":{"rendered":"What has the military-industrial complex got to offer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I posted this comment on Twitter \/ X yesterday afternoon:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-93260\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-18-at-18.07.52-550x106.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"106\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-18-at-18.07.52-550x106.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-18-at-18.07.52-768x147.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-18-at-18.07.52-600x115.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-18-at-18.07.52.png 1156w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I then added:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-93261\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-18-at-18.08.01-550x76.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"76\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-18-at-18.08.01-550x76.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-18-at-18.08.01-768x106.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-18-at-18.08.01-600x83.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-18-at-18.08.01.png 1158w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Do I need to add a great deal more?<\/p>\n<p>It seems to me that giving in to Trump's demands on defence right now, and the demands of former Labour ministers who have bought into the demands of that military-industrial complex, would be utterly irresponsible and a massive strategic and political mistake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted this comment on Twitter \/ X yesterday afternoon: I then added: Do I need to add a great deal more? It seems to<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/06\/19\/what-has-the-military-industrial-complex-got-to-offer\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,224,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-neoliberalism","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93262,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93259\/revisions\/93262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}