MILITARY/INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

Military/Industrial Complex

Military/Industrial Complex

Introduction

Eisenhower alerted of the hazards of "undue influence" used by the "military-industrial complex." He cautioned that sustaining a large, enduring infantry establishment was "new in the American experience," and proposed that an "engaged citizenry" suggested the only productive protecting against contrary to the "misplaced power" of the military-industrial lobby.

 

Military/Industrial Complex

Press anecdotes at the time and the remembrances of those on the view propose that Eisenhower's astonishing strike on the infantry petition primarily had only a unassuming ripple effect. The historian Douglas Brinkley indicates that it was only years subsequent, as the Vietnam War loomed large in the nationwide ...