Military-industrial complex

The expression military–industrial complex (MIC) describes the relationship between a nation's military and the arms industry that supplies it, seen together as a vested interest which influences public policy.

Quotes

• In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. 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.
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower, Farewell Address (January 17, 1961)

See also

• American exceptionalism
• Anti-Russian sentiment
• Anti-war movement
• Capitalism
• Corruption
• Crimes Against Humanity
• Deception
• Evil
• Fear
• Foreign policy of the United States
• Greed
• Hegemony
• Imperialism
• Insanity
• International Criminal Court
• International law
• Iraq War

• Military
• NATO
• Noblesse oblige
• Nuclear weapons
• The Pentagon
• Propaganda
• Oligarchy
• Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, by Buckminster Fuller, (1969)
• Rule of law
• War crimes
• Totalitarianism
• Tyranny
• War is a Racket, by Smedley Butler
• World peace