NMED 3040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Private Military Company, Permanent War Economy, William Proxmire
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This must be, once and for all, a continuing program. Industry"s role in this program is to respond and cooperate . Industry must not be hampered by political witch hunts, or thrown to the fanatical isolationist fringe with a merchants of death label. Tristram coffin, the armed society: militarism in modern america, 1964, 169. The military industrial complex as a term is often associated with general eisenhower after wwii. It speaks to the forces at work when a standing army is combined with industrial concerns and state concerns. With the vietnam war, this concept would come to the forefront, and become the object of heated debate and scholarly inquiry. The fear is that such a complex acquires unwarranted influence over foreign policy and both the domestic economy and political process. The favoured ideology or world view can then become reproduced and perpetrated within society, and especially thought the economic political system.