Eisenhower’s Warning: The Military-Industrial Complex Forty Years Later

Hartung takes a fresh look at Pres Dwight Eisenhower's 1961 warning of the dangers of "undue influence" exerted by the "military-industrial complex." He opposes Pres George W. Bush and Defense Secy Donald Rumsfeld's agenda, which amounts to a unilateralist drive for US...

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Published in:World policy journal 2001-04, Vol.18 (1), p.39-44
Main Author: Hartung, William D.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accountability
Armaments
Armed Forces
Bomber aircraft
Bush, George W
Citizen Participation
Current affairs
Defense Spending
Defenses
Financial budgets
General Interest
Government
Government and politics
Industrial mobilization
International Relations
Militarization
Military defense
Military industrial complex
Military market
Military policy
Military spending
Missile defense
Munitions
Political campaigns
Political History
Politics
Presidents
Public Policy
Purchasing, Military and naval
Rumsfeld, Donald H
Senators
Social conditions & trends
Society
United States
War
Warnings
Weapons
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Summary:Hartung takes a fresh look at Pres Dwight Eisenhower's 1961 warning of the dangers of "undue influence" exerted by the "military-industrial complex." He opposes Pres George W. Bush and Defense Secy Donald Rumsfeld's agenda, which amounts to a unilateralist drive for US preeminence based on an ambitious missile defense scheme and a re-legitimation of the role of nuclear weapons as an instrument not only of deterrence, but of warfare.
ISSN:0740-2775
1936-0924
DOI:10.1215/07402775-2001-2011