Reshaping War For The 21st Century / Shana Marshall

 The largest donors to these think tanks are always military contractors and sort of secondary industries. Like there's insurance companies that specialize in providing insurance for what they call third-party contractors, third-party nationals, which are like the caterers and the security guards and stuff that are at overseas US military bases. They are major contributors to these think tanks too because their bottom line is also war-making. These contractors will even provide funds for specific initiatives at different think tanks around very particular sort of war aims. There was a specific case with the C- Center for a New American Security which was provided a lot of money from, actually from the Emirates to basically produce a series of policy papers to argue for the expanded export of sensitive US drone technology and why this was critical to Middle East security. And then they took that money and produced a series of papers that argued explicitly for the relaxation of those arms export controls that would allow for more weapons to be exported to the Emirates.