Tag / military industrial complex
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The Real Cost of National Security
In the United States, politicians and statesmen continually remind the public that America is the greatest country in the world. However, in spite of these pervasive beliefs, the United States consistently lags behind European and Asian countries in education, public health, infant mortality, and other standards of social and economic strength, exposing the stark contrast…
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A Day Late and a Shell Short
In his farewell address to the nation on January 17, 1961, then-president Dwight D. Eisenhower coined the term “military-industrial complex,” referring to the intertwining of legislative, military, and defense industry interests that manage the development, production, acquisition, and distribution of America’s military equipment and armaments. In the early 1960s, the US military industrial complex was…
