Military-Industrial Complex
The Military-Industrial Complex capture lane traces 345 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.
Activity over time
Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-12 | Trump Orders US Navy to Blockade Strait of Hormuz After 21-Hour Iran Peace Talks Collapse Donald Trump · JD Vance · Jared Kushner · Steve Witkoff · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-04-07 | US and Iran Agree to Two-Week Ceasefire After Trump Threatens to Destroy Iranian Civilization Donald Trump · Iran · Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-24 | Palantir and Anduril Developing Core Software for $185 Billion Golden Dome Missile Shield Palantir · Anduril Industries · SpaceX · Elon Musk · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-20 | Army 1st Special Forces Command Renews Clearview AI Facial Recognition Contract Through 2030 Clearview AI · U.S. Army 1st Special Forces Command · Hoan Ton-That · Mission and Installation Contracting Command | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-14 | U.S. Army Awards Anduril $20 Billion Enterprise Contract for AI-Enabled Lattice Platform Anduril Industries · U.S. Army · Donald Trump Jr. · Peter Thiel · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-11 | Anduril Acquires ExoAnalytic Solutions, Doubling Space Surveillance Unit for Golden Dome Anduril Industries · ExoAnalytic Solutions · Palmer Luckey | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-09 | Trump Sons' Drone Company Powerus Announces Nasdaq Listing via Reverse Merger with Golf Course Operator Eric Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · Powerus Corporation · Aureus Greenway Holdings · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-03 | Anduril Raises $4 Billion at $60 Billion Valuation as Iran War Drives Defense Spending Anduril Industries · Andreessen Horowitz · Thrive Capital · Founders Fund · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-17 | Eric Trump Invests in Israeli AI Drone Maker Xtend as Company Announces $1.5B Nasdaq Listing via Reverse Merger Eric Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · Xtend · Unusual Machines · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-15 | Pentagon Extends Defense Contractor "Naughty List" Review Period Pentagon · Pete Hegseth · RTX · General Dynamics · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-11 | Trump Orders Pentagon to Purchase Coal-Fired Electricity Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Defense · Department of Energy · Peabody Energy | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-10 | Grand Jury Rejects DOJ Attempt to Indict Six Democratic Lawmakers Over Military Oath Video Department of Justice · Jeanine Pirro · Mark Kelly · Elissa Slotkin · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-08 | Hegseth Skips NATO Defense Ministers Meeting in Brussels Pete Hegseth · Pentagon · North Atlantic Treaty Organization · Elbridge Colby · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-07 | NATO Launches Arctic Sentry Multi-Domain Mission in High North North Atlantic Treaty Organization · Mark Rutte · Joint Force Command Norfolk · Denmark · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-06 | Trump Executive Order Reorients Arms Sales as Domestic Industrial Policy Donald Trump · White House · U.S. Department of Defense · Department of State · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-04 | Trump Reverses Position on Netflix-Warner Bros. Merger Involvement After Ethics Criticism Donald Trump · Netflix · Warner Bros. Discovery · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-28 | Rubio Testifies to Senate on Venezuela Policy, Pledges No Further Military Action Marco Rubio · State Department · Senate Foreign Relations Committee · Venezuela · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-25 | Denmark Deploys Combat-Ready Troops to Greenland in Operation Arctic Endurance Denmark · Danish Armed Forces · Greenland · North Atlantic Treaty Organization · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-21 | Whistleblowers Expose ICE Policy Authorizing Warrantless Home Entries Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Todd Lyons · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Richard Blumenthal | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-18 | EPA WOTUS Rollback Moves Forward After Public Comment Period U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Lee Zeldin · U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-09 | Trump Threatens to Take Greenland 'The Hard Way' as Greenlandic Parties Unite in Opposition Donald Trump · Mute Egede · Greenland Political Parties | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-08 | Senate Votes 52-47 to Limit Trump's Military Action in Venezuela, Five Republicans Cross Party Lines Tim Kaine · Rand Paul · Susan Collins · Lisa Murkowski · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-07 | General Matter Wins $900M DOE Contract for HALEU Uranium Enrichment at Paducah General Matter · Department of Energy · Peter Thiel · Founders Fund · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-07 | US Navy Seizes Two Venezuelan Oil Tankers Including Russian-Flagged Vessel Near Iceland Donald Trump · US Navy · Navy SEALs · Russia · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-06 | Denmark Announces $13.8 Billion Defense Spending to Rearm Greenland in Response to US Threats Mette Frederiksen · Jens-Frederik Nielsen · Denmark · Greenland | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-06 | White House Declares Military Force 'Always an Option' to Acquire Greenland Donald Trump · Stephen Miller · Karoline Leavitt · Mette Frederiksen · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-05 | Danish PM Frederiksen Warns US Attack on Greenland Would Mean 'End of Everything' Mette Frederiksen · Donald Trump · North Atlantic Treaty Organization | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-05 | Defense Secretary Hegseth Moves to Cut Senator Mark Kelly's Military Rank and Retirement Pay Pete Hegseth · Mark Kelly · U.S. Department of Defense | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-05 | Israeli Security Cabinet Approves 'Operation Iron Strike' Against Iran Benjamin Netanyahu · Israeli Security Cabinet · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-04 | Trump Declares US Will 'Run' Venezuela After Military Invasion Donald Trump · Stephen Miller · JD Vance · Nicolas Maduro | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-03 | US Military Invades Venezuela, Captures President Maduro in Predawn Raid Donald Trump · Nicolas Maduro · Pete Hegseth · Delta Force · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-02 | Trump Threatens Military Intervention in Iran Protests, Says US 'Locked and Loaded' Donald Trump · Iranian Government | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-30 | US Military Strikes Three-Vessel Convoy in Pacific, 11 Killed as Survivors Left in Deadly Seas US Military · US Coast Guard · SOUTHCOM | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-25 | US Launches Christmas Day Strikes on Nigerian Villages, ISIS Claims Questioned by Residents and Analysts Donald Trump · Bola Tinubu · AFRICOM · Nigerian Armed Forces · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-24 | CIA Conducts First Land Strike in Venezuela, Destroying Drug Boat Loading Facility Central Intelligence Agency · Venezuela | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-20 | Defense Secretary Hegseth Orders 'Operation Hawkeye Strike': Massive Retaliatory Strikes Against ISIS in Syria Pete Hegseth · Donald Trump · Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar · William Nathaniel Howard · +2 | reported | |
| 2025-12-19 | DHS Releases Year-End Report Claiming 'Most Secure Border in History' While Touting 2.5 Million Departures and Record Drug Seizures Department of Homeland Security (DHS) · Kristi Noem · Donald Trump · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-18 | Border Patrol Academy Reaches Highest Enrollment Since 2009 With 1,100 Trainees as Trump Administration Militarizes Enforcement Training U.S. Border Patrol · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · Donald Trump · Department of Homeland Security (DHS) | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-18 | FY 2026 NDAA Section 1085 Eliminates Congressional Notification for AUKUS Defense Trade, DDTC Final Rule Effective December 30 U.S. Congress · 119th Congress · Senate Armed Services Committee · House Armed Services Committee · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-18 | FY 2026 NDAA Sections 1651-1652 Codify Trump Golden Dome Missile Defense Policy, Lock In 2,440-Vendor Ecosystem Including SpaceX $2B Satellite Constellation U.S. Congress · 119th Congress · Senate Armed Services Committee · House Armed Services Committee · +10 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-17 | Senate Passes $901 Billion Defense Bill with Unprecedented Oversight Provisions Targeting Hegseth Pete Hegseth · Donald Trump · Tim Kaine · Frank Bradley · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-17 | Trump Announces Naval 'Blockade' of Venezuelan Oil Tankers, Designates Government as Terrorist Organization Donald Trump · Marco Rubio · Venezuela · US Navy | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-15 | Pentagon Reports 82 Killed in 21 Strikes During Operation Southern Spear Pentagon · Human Rights Watch | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-11 | DHS Secretary Noem Confronted Over Veteran Deportations in Contentious Congressional Hearing Kristi Noem · Seth Magaziner · Sae Joon Park · Jim Brown · +2 | reported | |
| 2025-12-08 | Human Rights Groups Document Systematic Torture at Fort Bliss Immigration Detention Facility: 45+ Detainees Report Beatings, Sexual Abuse, Crushed Testicles, and Coerced Deportations Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · American Civil Liberties Union · Human Rights Watch · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-08 | ProPublica Reveals Trump Committed Same Mortgage Fraud He Now Calls Criminal Donald Trump · Bill Pulte · ProPublica · Merrill Lynch · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-12-05 | RFK Jr.'s Reconstituted CDC Panel Votes to Roll Back Newborn Hepatitis B Vaccine Recommendation Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-05 | Supreme Court Grants Review of Trump's Birthright Citizenship Challenge, Setting Stage for Constitutional Crisis U.S. Supreme Court · Donald Trump · D. John Sauer · American Civil Liberties Union · +5 | disputed | |
| 2025-12-04 | Amnesty International documents torture and enforced disappearances at "Alligator Alcatraz" and Krome detention facilities Amnesty International · Amy Fischer · Ana Piquer · Ron DeSantis · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-04 | Appeals Court Halts Removal of National Guard from Washington DC, Preserving Militarized Presence in Capital U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit · Donald Trump · Judge Jia Cobb · U.S. District Court for D.C. · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-04 | Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche Warns DOJ Tracks Lawyers' Public Criticism of Prosecutions Todd Blanche · Department of Justice · White-collar defense lawyers · American Conference Institute · +4 | reported | |
| 2025-12-04 | Veterans Warn Trump's Afghan Asylum Freeze Endangers U.S. Allies and Undermines Future Military Partnerships Donald Trump · Shawn VanDiver · Thomas Kasza · Afghan Evac Coalition · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-01 | Palantir Wins Record £240M UK Ministry of Defence Contract After Hiring Four Ex-MOD Officials Palantir Technologies · UK Ministry of Defence · Barnaby Kistruck · Laurence Lee · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-01 | SOUTHCOM Commander Admiral Holsey Offers Resignation Over Boat Strike Legality Concerns Alvin Holsey · Pete Hegseth · Adam Smith · SOUTHCOM | confirmed | |
| 2025-11-28 | Washington Post reveals Hegseth gave "kill everybody" order in Caribbean boat strikes, killing shipwrecked survivors Pete Hegseth · Admiral Frank Bradley · Donald Trump · Karoline Leavitt · +4 | reported | |
| 2025-11-26 | National Guard Members Shot Near White House: Beckstrom Killed, Wolfe Critically Wounded Sarah Beckstrom · Andrew Wolfe · Rahmanullah Lakanwal · Donald Trump · +4 | reported | |
| 2025-11-20 | Trump Threatens Six Democratic Congress Members with Execution for Reminding Military of Duty to Refuse Illegal Orders Donald Trump · Elissa Slotkin · Mark Kelly · Chris DeLuzio · +9 | reported | |
| 2025-11-19 | Trump Signs Epstein Files Transparency Act, but Active Investigation Loophole May Enable Redactions Donald Trump · Pam Bondi · Department of Justice · U.S. Congress · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-11-18 | Six Democratic Congress Members Release Video Reminding Military of Constitutional Duty to Refuse Illegal Orders Elissa Slotkin · Mark Kelly · Jason Crow · Chris DeLuzio · +7 | reported | |
| 2025-11-13 | Defense Secretary Hegseth Formally Unveils 'Operation Southern Spear' Military Campaign Pete Hegseth · U.S. Department of Defense | confirmed | |
| 2025-11-10 | Trump Issues Proclamation for Marine Corps 250th Anniversary Emphasizing Military Spending Increase Donald Trump · JD Vance | confirmed | |
| 2025-11-10 | Trump Issues Veterans Day 2025 Proclamation Emphasizing Tax Cuts and Homeless Veteran Housing Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-11-06 | Jury Acquits DOJ Whistleblower Sean Dunn of Sandwich Assault in Rebuke to Weaponized Prosecution Sean Dunn · Pam Bondi | confirmed | |
| 2025-11-01 | Pentagon Awards Record $620M Loan to Trump Jr.-Backed Vulcan Elements for Rare Earth Magnets Donald Trump Jr. · 1789 Capital · Vulcan Elements · Pentagon · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-11-01 | United Kingdom Suspends Intelligence Sharing with US Over Caribbean Boat Strikes United Kingdom · Five Eyes · UK Attorney General | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-31 | Anduril's Autonomous Fighter Jet Completes First Flight Test Anduril Industries · U.S. Air Force · Palmer Luckey | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-30 | Trump Officials Flee to Military Bases: Miller, Noem, Hegseth, Rubio Create Militarized "Green Zone" Charlie Kirk · Kristi Noem · Marco Rubio · Pete Hegseth · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-25 | Tech Billionaires Block Trump Military Deployment to San Francisco Jensen Huang · Marc Benioff · Mayor Daniel Lurie · Sam Altman · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-24 | Comey and James File Consolidated Challenge to Halligan's Authority Under 120-Day Rule James Comey · Letitia James · Lindsey Halligan · Judge Cameron McGowan Currie · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-24 | Pentagon Awards Drone Contract to Company Where Trump Jr. Holds $4 Million Stake Donald Trump Jr. · Unusual Machines · Pentagon · U.S. Army · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-22 | Pentagon Replaces Mainstream Media with MAGA Propaganda Outlets in Press Corps Pete Hegseth · Pentagon · mainstream media outlets · far-right media | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-22 | Trump Administration Prioritizes White South Africans in Refugee Admissions Trump Administration · State Department · pro-Afrikaner advocacy groups | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-22 | Trump Obsession with $300M Ballroom: Demolishes Historic East Wing While Miller and Vought Run Government Donald Trump · Stephen Miller · Russ Vought | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-21 | Trump Demands $230 Million from DOJ as 'Compensation' for Investigations Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Justice · former Trump defense lawyers | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-21 | UN Human Rights Experts Condemn US Boat Strikes as 'Extrajudicial Executions' United Nations · Volker Türk · UN Human Rights Council | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-20 | ICE Weapons Budget Surges 700% Including Guided Missiles and Explosives Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-20 | Ninth Circuit Panel Allows Trump National Guard Deployment to Portland U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · Donald Trump · Oregon National Guard · Karin Immergut · +3 | reported | |
| 2025-10-16 | Planet Labs Wins $12.8M NGA Contract for AI Maritime Surveillance in Asia-Pacific Planet Labs · Founders Fund · National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency · National Reconnaissance Office · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-15 | Pentagon Chief Hegseth Blocks Military Officials From Contacting Congress Without Approval Pete Hegseth · Steve Feinberg · Pentagon | reported | |
| 2025-10-15 | Trump Publicly Identifies Political Opponents for DOJ Prosecution Donald Trump · Pam Bondi · Kash Patel · Jack Smith · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-09 | Trump Authorizes Foreign Construction of Arctic Security Cutters via Presidential Memorandum Donald Trump · White House · U.S. Coast Guard · U.S. Department of Homeland Security | reported | |
| 2025-10-01 | Trump Notifies Congress of 'Non-International Armed Conflict' with 'Unlawful Combatants' in Caribbean Donald Trump · U.S. Congress · Jack Reed | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-29 | Trump Grants Qatar Unprecedented NATO-Like Security Guarantee via Executive Order Donald Trump · White House · State of Qatar · Benjamin Netanyahu | reported | |
| 2025-09-25 | National Archives Releases Unredacted Military Records of Trump Opponent to GOP Operative National Archives · Mikie Sherrill · Nicholas De Gregorio · Chris Russell · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-23 | Hegseth Terminates 74-Year-Old Women's Military Advisory Committee, Citing 'Divisive Feminist Agenda' Pete Hegseth · DACOWITS · U.S. Department of Defense | reported | |
| 2025-09-16 | Navy Seeks 2,400 Housing Units for Guam Military Buildup as Costs Squeeze Local Residents US Navy · U.S. Department of Defense · Joint Region Marianas · Pacific Center for Island Security | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-09 | ICE Awards $9.2 Million Facial Recognition Contract to Clearview AI Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Clearview AI · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-05 | Trump Signs Executive Order Renaming Pentagon as 'Department of War' Trump · Pete Hegseth · U.S. Department of Defense | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-02 | ICE Reactivates $2M Paragon Spyware Contract for WhatsApp, Signal Encryption Breaking Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Paragon · Homeland Security · WhatsApp | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-02 | US Military Conducts "Double Tap" Strike on Caribbean Vessel, Killing 11 Including Shipwrecked Survivors Admiral Frank "Mitch" Bradley · Pete Hegseth · Donald Trump · Senator Angus King · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-08-29 | DOJ Loosens Requirements to Deploy ~600 Military JAG Officers as Immigration Judges Department of Justice · Trump · U.S. Military | reported | |
| 2025-08-26 | Commerce Secretary Lutnick Discloses Trump Considering Equity Stakes in Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Palantir Howard Lutnick · Trump · Lockheed Martin · Boeing · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-08-14 | Florida opens "Deportation Depot" at Baker prison after Alligator Alcatraz court defeat Ron DeSantis · Kevin Guthrie · Kristi Noem · U.S. Department of Homeland Security | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-07 | Senator Ossoff documents 510 credible reports of ICE detention abuse including child mistreatment Jon Ossoff · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Tricia McLaughlin (DHS) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-02 | TRAC: ICE arrests drop to ~990 per day in July 2025 TRAC Syracuse University · ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-01 | ICE detention deaths reach 14 in FY2025 amid reports of medical neglect and overcrowding Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · CoreCivic · GEO Group · U.S. Department of Homeland Security | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-01 | U.S. Army Awards Palantir $10 Billion AI-Driven Software Contract U.S. Army · Palantir Technologies · U.S. Department of Defense · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-25 | Trump Administration Accepts Qatar's Luxury Jet, Uses Missile Program Funds for Retrofit Donald Trump · Troy Meink · Pete Hegseth | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-17 | Thiel's Founders Fund Leads $260M Round for Hadrian Defense Manufacturing Startup Hadrian Automation · Founders Fund · Peter Thiel · Lux Capital · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-15 | Pentagon Awards $295 Million Guam Defense Contract as Military Buildup Strains Local Housing Market U.S. Department of Defense · Core Tech-HDCC-Kajima LLC · Missile Defense Agency · Robert Rasch | confirmed |