{"id":13925,"date":"2026-01-07T09:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T15:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dfwworld.org\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=13925"},"modified":"2026-01-08T11:13:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T17:13:54","slug":"war-machine","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.dfwworld.org\/event\/war-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trillion Dollar War Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. spends nearly a trillion dollars on its military each year, making up 40% of the world\u2019s military spending. Is this spending really keeping America safe?<\/p>\n<p>Bill Hartung, author and senior fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, argues that not only is this spending not keeping America safe, but it is endangering both the U.S. and the world at large.<\/p>\n<p>On January 21st, Hartung joins WorldNow with Jim Falk to reveal how the American military industrial complex operates, its key players \u2013 from Hollywood and Silicon Valley to lobbyists and the Pentagon\u2019s top contractors \u2013 and how we can secure America\u2019s future and prosperity by re-envisioning America\u2019s trillion-dollar war machine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ABOUT THE SPEAKER<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-13926 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfwworld.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/William-D.-Hartung.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/span><strong>William D. Hartung<\/strong> is a senior fellow at the Quincy Institute, focusing on the arms industry and US military budget. He was previously the director of the Arms and Security Program at the Center for International Policy and the co-director of the Center\u2019s Sustainable Defense Task Force. Bill is the co-author, with Ben Freeman, of the recently released <em>The Trillion Dollar War Machine: How Runaway Military Spending Drives America into Foreign Wars and Bankrupts Us at Home<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ABOUT THE MODERATOR<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10586 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfwworld.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Jim-Falk.png\" alt=\"Jim Falk\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/span><strong>Jim Falk<\/strong> is President Emeritus of the World Affairs Council of Dallas\/Fort Worth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A &#8220;WorldNow with Jim Falk&#8221; event<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":13928,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[348,320,346,175,174,176,350,372,309],"memberships":[52],"topic":[76,98,108,110,111,75,99,73,81,202],"tribe_events_cat":[12],"class_list":["post-13925","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-author","tag-books","tag-connecticut","tag-dallas","tag-dfw","tag-fort-worth","tag-jim-falk","tag-military","tag-war","memberships-general-membership","topic-author","topic-current-events","topic-disaster-preparedness","topic-foreign-policy","topic-geopolitics","topic-global-policy","topic-nonfiction","topic-politics","topic-security","topic-technology","tribe_events_cat-public-programs","cat_public-programs"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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