I'm fascinated with the list of 2006's 100 top prime contractors released by the Department of Defense. Earlier, I blogged about the top 10, none of which took me by surprise. As I browsed the rest of the list, though, I found a number of companies I hadn't considered as defense contractors. I noted particularly how dependent our military is on petroleum to carry out its mission.

• #26 FedEx Corp. (NYSE:FDX) -- $1.3 billion
• #29 BP PLC (NYSE:BP) -- $1.2 billion
• #30 Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE:XOM) -- $1.1 billion
• #31 N.V. Koninklijke Nederlandsche (Shell) -- $1.1 million
• #34 Kuwait Petroleum -- $1 billion
• #39 Korea Agriculture Cooperative -- $760 million
• #49 Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- $640 million
• #50 Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL) -- $636 million
• #52 Cardinal Health Inc. (NYSE:CAH) -- $635 million
• #58 Government of Canada (EH) -- $542 million
• #60 Johns Hopkins University -- $525 million
• #61 Battelle Memorial Institute -- $519 million
• #66 Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. -- $494 million
• #70 The Bahrain Petroleum Company -- $478 million
• #80 Procter & Gamble Co. (NYSE:PG) -- $362 million (including $13 million to Millstone Coffee and $5.6 million to Sunny Delight)
• #91 Tyson Foods Inc. (NYSE:TSN) -- $335 million
• #98 Pepsico Inc. (NYSE:PEP) -- $287 million
• #99 Unicor/Federal Prisons Industries Inc. (DJNT) -- $283 million

I highly recommend checking out the full list. Consider how changes in our war status might effect the prices of your stocks.