In today’s security environment, Western countries need a military-industrial complex—a real one, not a bogeyman
3 January 2019
As featured in The Wall Street Journal
The military-industrial complex
President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned of “the military-industrial complex” in his January 1961 farewell address. The term has become a powerful bogeyman, implying a conspiracy between the military and its suppliers to operate in their own interests. But in today’s security environment, Western countries need a military-industrial complex—a real one, not a bogeyman.
