This volume focuses on the profound impact of defence spending on those local and regional economies that have become dependent upon defence contracts. Contributors discuss the historic role of defence expenditure, patterns of regional change, restructuring the military-industrial complex, the impact and transformation of regional economies and the question of defence spending as urban policy.

Preface - Andrew Kirby
The Pentagon - Andrew Kirby
versus
the Cities?
Development Theory and the Military Industrial Firm - Nancy Ettlinger
The Pentagon and the Gunbelt - Peter Hall and Ann Markusen
Living by the Sword and Dying by the Sword - Richard Barff
Defense Spending and New England¿s Economy in Retrospect and Prospect
Military Spending in Free Enterprise Cities - Robert E Parker and Joe Feagin
The Military-Industrial Complex in Houston and Las Vegas
Indigenous Homelands and the Security Requirements of Western Nation States - Peter Armitage
The Case of Innu Opposition to Military Flight Training in Eastern Quebec and Labrador
The Legacy of the Pentagon - Gerald Jacob
The Myth of the Peace Dividend
Escaping the Conceptual Box - Marvin Waterstone and Andrew Kirby
Ideological and Economic Conversion
Epilogue - Marvin Waterstone
The Pentagon, the Cites and Beyond