
costsofwar.watson.brown.edu
September 10, 2026
2 min read
56/100
Summary
How Big Tech and Silicon Valley are Transforming the Military-Industrial Complex Anthropologist Roberto González (Professor, San José State University) examines how America’s military-industrial complex has been rapidly expanding from the Capital Beltway to Silicon Valley. Although much of the Pentagon’s budget is spent on conventional weapons systems, the Defense Department has increasingly sough...