History - Past and Perspective
Military-industrial Spending Spree
In the United States, war is thought to always be a last resort, undertaken when negotiations and other options have failed, but warfare corporatism boosts war’s chances. ...
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“Avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican liberty.”
— George Washington,
Farewell Address, September 17, 1796
“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.”
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