This highly diversified company whose primary line of business is the sale of Instruments of Death. It is quite amazing how little control the average citizen has over how his hard earned tax dollars are spent or rather wasted in grossly over budget projects that are undertaken by this firm.

This highly diversified company whose primary line of business is the sale of Instruments of Death. It is quite amazing how little control the average citizen has over how his hard earned tax dollars are spent or rather wasted in grossly over budget projects that are undertaken by this firm.

Probably a magazine article disguised as a book, this falls for every non-fiction writing cliche in existence (start with an anecdote! make it about people!) but it's eye-opening anyway. I look forward to the day that Lockheed, Apple and Windows merge like Voltron and proceed to take over the world with very pretty, dysfunctional, overpriced consumer goods that can double as weapons systems. All of it will be funded by the government, of course, but not in a socialistic way. No, in this state the share-holders and executives make out with billions of tax-payer money. It's the American Way. ( )

Analyzes largest beneficiary of Military-Industrial Complex, Lockheed Martin. Like the company it aims to criticize, the book itself is convoluted and a tangled web of names and events. Does present some very valid criticisms of budgetary waste, short-sightedness, and incompetence, though. ( )