Military-industrial complex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "The term military-industrial complex usually refers to the combination of the U.S. armed forces, arms industry and associated political and commercial interests, which grew rapidly in scale and influence in the wake of World War II, although it can also be used to describe any such relationship of industry and military. It is sometimes used to refer to the iron triangle that is argued to exist among weapons makers/military contractors (industry), The Pentagon (military), and the United States Congress (government). ..."
Web Sites
Military-Industrial Complex Records and tallies publicly-reported contracts between corporations and agencies of the U.S. Department of Defense
Articles
Pentagon Conduits, by Sheldon Richman, 25 Apr 2008 Related Topic: Freedom of the Press Discusses the revelations about TV news analysts connected to the Pentagon and to military contractors "A retired general representing or wishing to represent a military contractor has no better credential than access to insider briefings about current operations. To lose that access is to lose one's livelihood. Thus the Pentagon's plan worked. Disguised as objective analysts, the Defense Department's mouthpieces faithfully delivered the administration's propaganda."
The Threat of Militarism, by Karen Kwiatkowski, 9 Jul 2006 Related Topics: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Founding Fathers, Learning Presentation to Global Scholar seminar, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va. "Ike advised us to be citizens who rise above our slothful, greedy, prideful, and angry tendencies. He also named a part of government and society — the military industrial complex — that would need to be watched for these same tendencies. These same sins afflict the military industrial complex — after all, it still just people."
Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski: U.S. Air Force, 1983-2003, by Brian Lamb, Q & A (C-SPAN), 2 Apr 2006 Related Topics: Karen Kwiatkowski, George W. Bush, Why We Fight Transcript and Real Audio "... this emphasis, this need, it's kind of connected. It's like you said, it's the military industrial, and he wanted to say Congressional complex, because there's kind of self-fulfilling prophecy, in a way. I mean, we need the jobs. Those jobs happen to be producing military weapons. In order to justify that, we have to have a use for those military weapons."
The Servile State Revisited, by Joseph Sobran, The Wanderer, 5 Jun 2003 Related Topics: The State, Democracy "... one of the most dispiriting features of the war on Iraq was the ease with which the State was able to convince millions of productive Americans that this was somehow a war for their freedom. These people, mostly conservative, are simply unable to see the military establishment as a huge and integral part of the bureaucratic State, parasitic on the country's wealth."
Why We Fight: Go see the movie, by Justin Raimondo, 1 Feb 2006 Related Topics: Why We Fight, Militarism "... the U.S. government [is] the active element that keeps the military-industrial complex (MIC) running like a well-oiled treadmill; and, since Eisenhower's day, the MIC has become an enormous edifice, one that relentlessly and quite profitably perpetuates itself almost like an living organism."
The Spirit of '43, by Walt Disney (producer), 7 Jan 1943 Related Topic: Taxation World War II propaganda cartoon showing how the military industrial complex needs income taxation to subsist
