Military History

America’s War Machine

Molly Sinclair McCartney, Wilson Center Public Policy Scholar and journalist with more than thirty years of experience as a reporter at five different newspapers, including the Washington Post and Miami Herald.

This week on dialogue we will be joined by Molly Sinclair McCartney. Molly is a journalist with more than thirty years of experience as a reporter at five different newspapers, including ten years at the Miami Herald and nearly fifteen years at the Washington Post. She joins us to discuss her late husband’s work and upcoming book on the military-industrial complex in the United States. She describes how these forces have come to dominate U.S. foreign and economic policy and to lead to interminable military interventions and wars.