One Third of Biden's Pentagon Transition Team Hails From Organizations Financed by the Weapons Industry. The president-elect is drawing from hawkish think tanks funded by arms companies.
By: Sarah Lazare 11/11/2020
In July 2019, while campaigning for the Democratic nomination for president, Joe Biden declared in a foreign policy speech, “It’s past time to end the Forever Wars, which have cost us untold blood and treasure.” But the president-elect — who as vice president oversaw wars in Yemen, Libya, Afghanistan and more — is already embracing personnel with strong ties to the military apparatus driving this endless combat.