History - Past and Perspective
Military-industrial Spending Spree

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. ...
Jack Kenny
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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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