He is a senior research fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, where his work focuses on the arms industry and U.S. military budget.
[1] Hartung is the former director of the Arms and Security Project at the Center for International Policy,[2] a former senior research fellow in the New America Foundation's American Strategy Program, and is former director of the Arms Trade Resource Center at the World Policy Institute.
He specializes in questions of weapons proliferation, the economics of military spending, and alternative approaches to national security strategy.
[3] He has contributed to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, The Nation,[4] The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Mother Jones.
[5] He featured in the documentaries Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire (2004) and Making a Killing: Inside the International Arms Trade (2006).