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	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.
		The "unwarranted influences" and "misplaced power" of the military industrial complex, it is contended, are the result of the growing size and power of U.S. government.
		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).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Military-industrial_complex (1112 words)

	CHAPTER 15
		And the military denied that "atomic soldiers," positioned near nuclear detonations, were not affected by radiation.
		Military production reactors for plutonium and tritium have not operated since mid-1988, and the last U.S. nuclear test was conducted in September 1992.
		In the 1990s there were growing complaints about military readiness, both from within the military and from Republicans who claimed that the president allowed the military to erode.
	www.angelfire.com /ca3/jphuck/BOOK3Ch15.html (18645 words)

	What Is the Military-Industrial Complex?
		The term the "military-industrial complex" was made famous by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his 1961 farewell address.
		Eisenhower believed that in 1961 the "conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry [was] new in the American experience." The level of peacetime expenditure on the military was unprecedented.
		Their concern is usually with the reciprocal influence of the military and industry on each other's policies, rather than the hijacking of foreign policy by a collective interest in maintaining military-related production.
	hnn.us /articles/869.html (967 words)

	military-industrial complex. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002
		A general term for the cooperative relationship between the military and the industrial producers of military equipment and supplies in lobbying for increased spending on military programs.
	www.bartleby.com /59/14/militaryindu.html (150 words)

	Military Industrial Complex
		MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX IN ARKANSAS An excellent report from AP appeared in The Morning News Sept. 8: "Military Spending Solidifies in State Since Attacks." 9-11 as you know is justifying enormous increases in military expenditures.
		The Military Industrial Complex is not the Republican Party.
		Because Iraq military efforts are being funded outside the normal appropriations process, in so-called "supplemental" or emergency spending bills, the funding does not go through the same rigorous congressional oversight to which normal Pentagon spending is subject annually.
	www.omnicenter.org /warpeacecollection/mic.htm (9524 words)

	Military Industrial Complex
		A number of high-level mergers have subsequently occurred, resulting in the concentration of economic and political power in the hands of a few industry giants.
		Many of the mergers and buyouts that have occurred in the last decade are the result of the "Last Supper" which took place in 1993, when then-Secretary of Defense Les Aspin urged top industry officials to consolidate or go out of business.
		The "Big Three" in the defense industry -- Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Raytheon -- alone accounted for 26% of all defense contracts in FY'99.
	www.cdi.org /issues/usmi/complex (265 words)

	The Military Industrial Complex
		What lessons can the post-WWII era teach us about making the transition from America's large Cold Wat military industrial complex...
		Is America stronger if it invests in weapons of debatable military use or invest in domestic areas such as education, infrastructure and...
		The U.S. military, its allies, and its adversaries polluted the environment.
	www.cdi.org /adm/mic.html (524 words)

	Chapter 10: Iron and a Military-Industrial Complex
		This is a story about a military-industrial complex, about power and politics and propaganda, about efforts to prevent high-technology weapons from reaching the hands of the enemy.
		And that meant money for military preparations, and military preparations meant iron, for weapons, armor, and especially for guns: personal firearms for an increasing proportion of the army, cannon for ships, bigger cannon for shore forts and castles, small field guns for the army, and huge guns that could be used in sieges.
		To a military commander, the Weald was vital for two things: military iron, and the wood supply for the English-held outposts in northern France.
	www.geology.ucdavis.edu /~cowen/~GEL115/115CH10.html (6954 words)

	World War II and the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex: Newsroom: The Independent Institute
		By the 1950s, members of Congress had insinuated themselves into positions of power in the complex, so that one is well justified in calling it the military-industrial-congressional complex (MICC) during the past 40 years.
		With great corporations, powerful military authorities, and members of Congress all linked in a mutually self-serving complex, there was little incentive to end the Cold War.
		Transactions were not so much firm deals as ongoing joint enterprises among colleagues and friends in which military officials and businessmen cooperated to achieve a common goal not incompatible with, but rather highly facilitative of, the pursuit of their separate interests.
	www.independent.org /newsroom/article.asp?id=141 (1609 words)

	TomDispatch - Tomgram: Nick Turse on Cyberstalking the Recruitable Teen
		He writes for the Los Angeles Times, the Village Voice and regularly for Tomdispatch on the military-corporate complex and the homeland security state.
		On the ground, the military may be bogged down in a seemingly interminable mission that was supposedly "accomplished" back on May 1, 2003, but on the Web it's still a be-all-that-you-can-be world of advanced career choices, peaceful pursuits, and risk-free excitement.
		Today's Military even takes the time to dispel "myths" like: "People in the Military are not compensated as well as private sector workers." According to Today's Military they are -- just don't tell it to the Marines who recently roughed up their highly-paid mercenary counterparts in Iraq.
	www.tomdispatch.com /index.mhtml?pid=5322 (2343 words)

	US Military Industrial Complex Reigns Supreme : SF Indymedia
		US Military Industrial Complex Reigns Supreme : SF Indymedia
		High on the US weapons industry 2003 to-do list is to gain full implementation of the 17 Defense Trade Security Initiatives that will allow, among other things, the weapons industry to be exempt from many provisions of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations for both foreign military sales and defense services.
		Thus, United States is supplying arms and military aid to countries where children are used as soldiers."
	sf.indymedia.org /news/2002/12/1554914.php (1924 words)

	What Did Eisenhower Mean When He Warned of a Military Industrial Complex? Take a Look at the Carlyle Group - A BuzzFlash Interview
		We’re seeing a very tight-knit group of companies and private military contractors that are virtually indistinguishable from various administrations and the political infrastructure of Washington, D.C. – so much so that it’s not clear whose interests we’re acting on when we go to war.
		BRIODY: United Defense is a classic military contractor.
		And the Crusader was heavily criticized by a national defense panel that was put together to assess the military requirements going forward.
	www.buzzflash.com /interviews/03/06/23_briody.html (3078 words)

	Bringing the War Home: The New Military-Industrial-Entertainment Complex at War and Play
		Like any good military-industrial company, Kuma has linked itself to the military through the Pentagon's revolving door of employment: a retired Marine Corps Major General serves as one of its corporate chiefs.
		The military is now in the midst of a full-scale occupation of the entertainment industry, conducted with far more skill (and enthusiasm on the part of the occupied) than the one in Iraq.
		It was developed under the watchful eye of military personnel who teach at the Army's Infantry School at Fort Benning, and is actually a revamped version of "Full Spectrum Command," a PC-game/combat simulator used by the military to teach the fundamentals of commanding a light infantry company in urban environments.
	www.commondreams.org /views03/1017-09.htm (2734 words)

	US Military-Industrial Complex: Profiting from War
		On January 17, 1961, in a nationally televised address delivered four days before John F. Kennedy's inaugural, Dwight Eisenhower spoke about the perils of the "unwarranted influence" exerted by the "military-industrial complex."
		The military industry has become a huge and untouchable jobs program employing directly and indirectly a large number of blue-collar workers and a rising number of technical professionals.
		In short, despite repeated calls for higher military spending to remedy the alleged "readiness crisis" facing US forces, the United States and its allies currently account for a much higher share of global military spending than they did at the height of the Reagan military buildup in the mid-1980s.
	www.nadir.org /nadir/initiativ/agp/free/9-11/military_complex.htm (5108 words)

	Positively Black - Military Industrial Complex
		The first time the term Military-Industrial Complex was publicly uttered was in President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s farewell speech at which time he warned the AmeriKKKan public to beware the insidious influence and creeping hold the military, defense research- technology, corporate and governmental hydra had on the nation.
		The military industrial, technology complex stands poised to provide support for the AmeriKKKan Empire.
		This is an example of the power of the military/industrial/propaganda/political complex in action.
	www.thetalkingdrum.com /jrs10.html (846 words)

	Stefan Landsberger's Chinese Propaganda Poster Pages--MIC
		The People's Liberation Army must have one of the most extensive military industrial complexes in the world, employing some 700,000 employees in about 10,000 enterprises.
		The PLA's industrial base became an excellent point of departure in the 1980s, when Deng Xiaoping's policy of economic reform forced the military more or less to finance its own modernization, due to a relative decline in the official budget.
		The decentralization of military production to the interior that was decided upon in the early 1960s, the so-called "Third Front policy", was an attempt to make every region completely self-sufficient in military needs, leading to a massive squandering of funds and resources.
	www.iisg.nl /~landsberger/pla8.html (449 words)

	War Industry - Schema-Root
		on American policy, specifically in relation to President Eisenhower's 1961 farewell address and his stern warning against the military-industrial complex.
		Defense guidance, first published in November 1990, requires each branch of the military to identify contractors who provide critical services to deployed units and to develop strategies for ensuring that these services continue during emergencies.
		Hunter, a California Republican, drafted the "Buy American" provisions to make sure the military could never be cut off from supplies by governments that might oppose a U.S.-led war such as the one launched in March to oust President Saddam Hussein from Iraq.
	www.schema-root.org /commerce/corporations/military (2689 words)

	TomDispatch - Tomgram: Nick Turse arm-wrestles the Military-Academic Complex
		While the formal military-academic complex of service academies and DoD institutions is a massive educational apparatus, its size, scope and cost pale in comparison to those in the increasingly militarized civilian higher educational structure.
		The military-academic complex is merely one of many readily perceptible, but largely ignored, examples of the increasing militarization of American society.
		Nicholas Turse is no stranger to the military-academic complex since he is a doctoral candidate at Columbia University (where General Dwight D. Eisenhower spent some of his days between being chief of staff of the U.S. Army and president of the United States).
	www.tomdispatch.com /index.mhtml?pid=1385 (2221 words)

	Ismael Hossein-Zadeh: The Bush Military Budget
		Representatives of the military-industrial complex, disproportionately ensconced in the State Department, succeeded in having President Truman embark on his famous overhaul of the U.S. foreign policy, which drastically increased the Pentagon budget and expanded the military-industrial establishment.
		As such, the complex has developed a built-in mechanism that constantly drives it to war, not necessarily to defend national interests, as its representatives usually claim, but to advance its own interests, to further strengthen and expand the military-industrial empire.
		What makes the militarist tendencies of the beneficiaries of "war dividends" especially dangerous is that, in the debate over military spending, representatives of these beneficiaries have almost always managed to camouflage their nefarious interests behind the national interests and, thereby, to outmaneuver the advocates of curtailment of the Pentagon budget.
	www.counterpunch.org /zadeh1025.html (3660 words)

	Military Industrial Complex (Harpers.org)
		This is Military Industrial Complex, a war tactic.
		Last year in which a quarterly rise in U.S. military spending was greater than the one last spring: 1951»[Bureau of Economic Analysis (Washington)]
		Percentage of the G-8 countries' combined military budgets it would take to halve the world's TB cases by 2010: 0.4»[World Health Organization (Washington)/ Harper's research]
	www.harpers.org /MilitaryIndustrialComplex.html (816 words)

	Foreign Policy In Focus: Military-Industrial Complex Revisited
		New Military Mega-Companies: Corporate Interests or National Interests
		The Star Warriors: Who's Benefiting from National Missile Defense?
	www.fpif.org /papers/micr/index_body.html (226 words)

	Prison-industrial complex - SourceWatch
		Closely associated with this, as with the military-industrial complex or Homeland Security, is pro-technology propaganda from vendors of technologies for use in prisons, as well as for monitoring, surveillance, and tracking the identity and movement of persons - and ominously anticipating their intent.
		The term Prison-industrial Complex refers to the privatization of correctional facilities.
		Prisons are both hugely expensive and at the same time very profitable, and as with military spending, the cost is public cost and the profits are private profits.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Prison-industrial_complex (477 words)

	Prison-industrial complex: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic
		The term military-industrial complex usually refers to the combination of the u.s....
		A prison is a place in which people are confined and deprived of a range of liberties....
		A carceral state is a state modelled on a prison....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/P/Pr/Prison-industrial_complex.htm (543 words)

	War Industry - Schema-Root
		Shadow 200 in Iraq(click to view full) Since being deployed to Iraq at the outset of military operations in early 2003, Shadow UAV units have flown more than 17,000 sorties and 76,000 flight hours in...
		As the conflict continues in Iraq and the war on terror rages on, the area's defense contractors are awash in Department of Defense money, with such unexpected industries as advertising and pharmaceutical companies sharing the wealth.
		Aerospace and defence industry chairmen gather in New York on 3/28/200, to announce an independent enterprise that will develop an Internet trading exchange for the global aerospace and defence industry.
	schema-root.org /commerce/corporation/military (2572 words)

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		* Military Industrial Complex - Dwight D. Eisenhower (1961)
		They'll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads.
		"If all Americans want is security, they can go to prison.
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	Military and Technical Cooperation of Kazakhstan: Prospects and Structure
		Ultimately, concerning the military technical cooperation of Kazakhstan, one might say that this republic is "devoted", at least presently, to "joint activity with Russian Federation in exploitation of elements of defense industrial complex inherited after the Soviet Union, after its disintegration, and in cooperation in manufacturing and export of armaments and military technology.
		Ultimately, concerning the military technical cooperation of Kazakhstan, one might say that this republic is "devoted ", at least presently, to "joint activity with Russian Federation in exploitation of elements of defense industrial complex inherited after the Soviet Union, after its disintegration, and in cooperation in manufacturing and export of armaments and military technology.
		Deliveries of military technology and property, components and equipment, carrying out a joint activity in the field of development and manufacturing of weapons and military equipment and development of technologies of double, civilian-military, purpose etc. by defense industrial enterprises of both countries within frameworks of industrial cooperation, interstate (intergovernmental) agreements and contracts.
	www.armscontrol.ru /atmtc/kazakhstan/article_mtc_kazakhstan.htm (9210 words)

	The journalism and films of John Pilger
		Chomsky calls this "military Keynesianism".The Military -industrial complex is the epitome of socialism and subsidisation of capital and profit and those who control this, rather than any threat of socialism that might be democratically accountable to and in the interests of the populace.
		The heart of modern elite rule is state-monopoly capitalism.And the heart of the state-corporate nexus is the military-industrial complex.Chomsky once said that the US could,without too much effort, be self-sufficient in oil.
	pilger.carlton.com /forums?mid=21112 (9210 words)

	Military-industrial complex - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Military-industrial complex
		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.
		Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together.
		Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Military-industrial-complex.html (9210 words)

	LaZer Runner Laser Tag Systems
		From complex industrial and military applications to amusement technology - our expertise in industrial design guarantees a safe, durable and above all, a profitable product.
		The electronics in the Battle Phaser and fiber-optic Battle Vest were designed with materials and construction similar to those used in demanding military and industrial applications.
		In fact, the electronics in the Battle Phaser, Battle Vest, and Phaser Charging Module are built to the same specifications as a military jet guidance system.
	www.lazerrunner.com /mod.php?mod=userpage&menu=11&page_id=31 (9210 words)

	Military Keynesianism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A similar critique is military Keynesianism accelerates the growth of a military-industrial complex â“ industrial sectors largely dependent on military spending.
		Military Keynesianism is a government economic policy in which the government devotes large amounts of spending to the military in an effort to increase economic growth.
		In this sense, the military might act as an employer of last resortâ“ it is an employment opportunity which tends to hire from the bottom (least qualified) part of the workforce, provides a decent standard of living, serves a useful social purpose, and offers jobs regardless of the state of the general economy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Military_Keynesianism (9210 words)

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