Globally we are spending over $630bn annually on weapons of war. Like other health harming industries (tobacco, big food, fossil fuels) the arms industry seeks to increase their profits, and uses the same tactics - lobbying, marketing, media manipulation, and narrative framing. Mark Bellis, professor at Liverpool John Moores University argues that it's time to start scrutinising the way the arms industry is telling governments, and their populations, that more weapons are the answer to more conflict, Read the collection https://www.bmj.com/collections/arms-...
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