This episode is part 2 of a two-part set of episodes on military spending. In the second part of this episode, we take a closer look at military expenditure by diving into the arms industry of the United States, the country with the highest military expenditure in the world. We continue the discussion on common arguments for military expenditure and talk with Taylor Barnes who is a journalist at Inkstick and based in Georgia, United States. She has covered the so-called “defense industry” in the US for years and she will tell us how investing in the arms industry often follows promises of “good jobs”, not least in areas of smaller towns lacking future prospects struggling with unemployment. But is that the reason why we should have a so-called defense industry, to create jobs? And how good are these jobs? Who are they for? And how has this industry changed over time? These are questions we will discuss in the second part of this episode where we take a closer look at the gendered aspect of the defense industry in the United States.