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- address by Eisenhower
- Central Intelligence Agency
- effect on warfare
- governmental purchasing sectors
- work of Bush
Additional Reading
Thomas L. McNaugher, New Weapons, Old Politics (1989), provides a clear, balanced description of military contracting in the United States. Gregory Hooks, Forging the Military-Industrial Complex (1991), describes the history of U.S. military planning during the period between the New Deal and World War II. Classic and critical texts include Gordon Adams, The Iron Triangle: The Politics of Defense Contracting (1981); and Mary Kaldor, The Baroque Arsenal (1981). An analysis of the future of the Soviet Union’s once-massive military-industrial complex is Clifford G. Gaddy, The Price of the Past: Russia’s Struggle with the Legacy of a Militarized Economy (1996).
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| Add new Web site: FIU Digital Commons - The Military-Industrial Complex and US Military Spending After 9/ 11. | Nov 14, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Air and Space Forces Magazine - The Military-Industrial Complex Myth. | Sep 30, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Johns Hopkins University Press - Delta of Power: The Military-Industrial Complex. | Aug 06, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Oregon - 1973:Testing the theory of the Military-industrial complex. | Jun 28, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Hoover Institution - The Military-Industrial Complex. | Apr 04, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Library of Congress - Origins of the Military-Industrial Complex. | Dec 21, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - The military industrial complex. | Sep 14, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Reaching Critical Will - Military-industrial complex. | Aug 03, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Ohio State University - Origins - The Anatomy of the Military-Industrial Complex. | Jun 08, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Minnesota Libraries - Sociology - The Military-Industrial Complex. | Apr 13, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: GlobalSecurity.org - Military-industrial complex. | Feb 16, 2023 | ||
| Media added. | Feb 19, 2020 | ||
| Add new Web site: Al Jazeera - Big money behind war: the military-industrial complex. | May 02, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: Al Jazeera - Big money behind war: the military-industrial complex. | Apr 25, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: Digital History - The Military-Industrial Complex. | May 17, 2012 | ||
| New article added. | Sep 09, 2005 |
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