Janet Abou-Elias is a researcher at the Democratizing Foreign Policy Project at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and a founder of Women for Weapons Trade Transparency. Her writing has appeared in The Hill, In These Times, Responsible Statecraft, The National Interest, Fair Observer, and other outlets.

William D. Hartung is a senior research fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, and the author, with Ben Freeman, of The Trillion Dollar War Machine: How Runaway Military Spending Drives America into Foreign Wars and Bankrupts Us at Home (forthcoming from Bold Type Books).