Primary and secondary schools are not the place for weapons manufacturers to be extending their reach

When you visit the southern hemisphere’s biggest aerospace weapons show you expect to see plenty of machines, worth billions of dollars, that kill lots of people and make companies obscenely wealthy.

What I didn’t expect to see when I wandered the exposition halls a few years ago and spoke to the besuited salespeople about how their products killed, were the logos of many respected tertiary institutions that were collaborating somehow with the merchants of death.

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