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Author : S. Mike Pavelec
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781598841879
Covers the military-industrial complex, from its Cold War era expansion to the present.
Author : S. Mike Pavelec
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216117957
The first complete reference on the military-industrial complex, from its Cold War era expansion to the present. The Military-Industrial Complex and American Society addresses the broad subject of the political economy of defense research and its wide-reaching effects on many aspects of American life. Ranging from the massive arms buildup of the Cold War to the influx of private contractors and corporations such as Halliburton, it reveals the interconnectedness of the military, industry, and government within the history of this public/private enterprise. The Military-Industrial Complex and American Society offers over 100 alphabetically organized entries on a wide of range of significant research bodies and government agencies, as well as important people, events, and technologies. In addition, a series of essays looks at such essential topics as propaganda, think tanks, defense budgeting, the defense industry and the economy, and the breakdown of the military-industrial complex in Vietnam. With this work, students, policymakers, and other interested readers will understand the ramifications of the relationships between industry, scientific and technological communities, the government, and society.
Author : Norman L. Crockett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Disarmament
ISBN : 0882730436
Author : Benjamin Franklin Cooling (III)
Publisher : Port Washington, N.Y. : Kennikat Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036705395
Author : Alex Roland
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781421441825
Does the Military-Industrial Complex as we understand it still exist? If so, how has it changed since the end of the Cold War? First named by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his farewell address, the Military-Industrial Complex, originally an exclusively American phenomenon of the Cold War, was tailored to develop and produce military technologies equal to the existential threat perceived to be posed by the Soviet Union. An informal yet robust relationship between the military and industry, the MIC pursued and won a qualitative, technological arms race but exacted a high price in waste, fraud, and abuse. Today, although total US spending on national security exceeds $1 trillion a year, it accounts for a smaller percentage of the federal budget, the national GDP, and world military spending than during the Cold War. Given this fact, is the MIC as we commonly understand it still alive? If so, how has it changed in the intervening years? In Delta of Power, Alex Roland tells the comprehensive history of the MIC from 1961, the Cold War, and the War on Terror, to the present day. Roland argues that the MIC is now significantly different than it was when Eisenhower warned of its dangers, still exerting a significant but diminished influence in American life. Focusing intently on the three decades since the end of the Cold War in 1991, Roland explains how a lack of cohesion, rapid change, and historical contingency have transformed America's military-industrial institutions and infrastructure. Roland addresses five critical realms of transformation: civil-military relations, relations between industry and the state, among government agencies, between scientific-technical communities and the state, and between technology and society. He also tracks the way in which America's arsenal has evolved since 1991. The MIC still merits Eisenhower's warning of political and moral hazard, he concludes, but it continues to deliver, by a narrower margin, the world's most potent arsenal. An authoritative account of America's evolving arsenal since World War II, Delta of Power is a dynamic exploration of military preparedness and current events.
Author : Alex Roland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015060638676
This booklet provides a thorough analysis of a set of relationships central to American history in the latter 20th century. Roland begins with an overview of U.S. industry and the military between World War I and the 1990s, focusesing on five transformations: civil-military relations, relations between industry and the state, among government agencies, between scientific-technical communities and the state, and between technology and society.
Author : Sidney Lens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Defense contracts
ISBN : 0829801545
"Much of the ... material appeared in a modified form as a series in the National Catholic reporter." Includes bibliographical references.
Author : Gregg B. Walker,David A. Bella,Steven J. Sprecher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X002436450
Thirty years ago Dwight D. Eisenhower, in his farewell address as President, warned of a -military-industrial complex;- a complex organizational system seemingly beyond the control of citizens and their elected government. With Eisenhower's ideas as inspiration, this book offers a collection of essays that examine various aspects of the U.S. Military-Industrial Complex and the farewell warning. The book reflects an interdisciplinary effort; essays come from such fields as history, economics, sociology, business, and communication."
Author : Steven J. Rosen
Publisher : Lexington, Mass. : Lexington Books
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : History
ISBN : UCSC:32106018629573
Author : Dwight D. Eisenhower
Publisher : Basementia Publications
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780976642398
Author : James Ledbetter
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300168822
In Dwight D. Eisenhower's last speech as president, on January 17, 1961, he warned America about the "military-industrial complex," a mutual dependency between the nation's industrial base and its military structure that had developed during World War II. After the conflict ended, the nation did not abandon its wartime economy but rather the opposite. Military spending has steadily increased, giving rise to one of the key ideas that continues to shape our country's political landscape.In this book, published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of Eisenhower's farewell address, journalist James Ledbetter shows how the government, military contractors, and the nation's overall economy have become inseparable. Some of the effects are beneficial, such as cell phones, GPS systems, the Internet, and the Hubble Space Telescope, all of which emerged from technologies first developed for the military. But the military-industrial complex has also provoked agonizing questions. Does our massive military establishment--bigger than those of the next ten largest combined--really make us safer? How much of our perception of security threats is driven by the profit-making motives of military contractors? To what extent is our foreign policy influenced by contractors' financial interests?Ledbetter uncovers the surprising origins and the even more surprising afterlife of the military-industrial complex, an idea that arose as early as the 1930s, and shows how it gained traction during World War II, the Cold War, and the Vietnam era and continues even today.
Author : Herbert I. Schiller,Joseph Dexter Phillips
Publisher : Urbana : University of Illinois Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105033763991
Author : Paul A. C. Koistinen
Publisher : Praeger Publishers
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035710362
Author : David Swanson
Publisher : eBookIt.com
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781456606626
This book is the most comprehensive collection available explaining what the military industrial complex (MIC) is, where it comes from, what damage it does, what further destruction it threatens, and what can be done and is being done to chart a different course.
Author : Nick Turse
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781429941631
A mind-boggling investigation of the allpervasive, constantly morphing presence of the Pentagon in daily life—a real-world Matrix come alive Here is the new, hip, high-tech military-industrial complex—an omnipresent, hidden-in-plain-sight system of systems that penetrates all our lives. From iPods to Starbucks to Oakley sunglasses, historian Nick Turse explores the Pentagon's little-noticed contacts (and contracts) with the products and companies that now form the fabric of America. Turse investigates the remarkable range of military incursions into the civilian world: the Pentagon's collaborations with Hollywood filmmakers; its outlandish schemes to weaponize the wild kingdom; its joint ventures with the World Wrestling Federation and NASCAR. He shows the inventive ways the military, desperate for new recruits, now targets children and young adults, tapping into the "culture of cool" by making "friends" on MySpace. A striking vision of this brave new world of remote-controlled rats and super-soldiers who need no sleep, The Complex will change our understanding of the militarization of America. We are a long way from Eisenhower's military-industrial complex: this is the essential book for understanding its twenty-first-century progeny.
