President Eisenhower talked about military industrial complex’s controlling the country and warned everybody about them in his farewell address in 1961. “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.”
Just recently as of the mid 80’s they started to exist and only became stronger. With every previous president not cutting the budgets on the military funding and taking the advice of lobbyist such as Dick Cheney had President Bush, this made it easier for Cheney to become wealthier due to the war.
Industrial complexes are a form of politics and government military working together. For example Dick Cheney, his family has ties to all branches of war materials such as fighter jets and he is connected to the oil market. He being a politician also allows for him to campaign for things that he wants war being a main priority to him, he advocates for it and with that he basically controls the country even more than the president although I’m not saying the president doesn’t get a portion of what is going on.
The past three presidents George HW Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. bush didn’t cut military deployments so they didn’t stop the wars then so they aren’t going to now[1]. So this also means they aren’t going to stop buying military weapons, in turn meaning no end to war only leading to the CEO’s of these big companies such as Lockheed martin only get wealthier due to the need of military fighter jets. As it turns out the CEO of this company is Dick Cheney’s wife, Lynne gets more money making the family wealthier[2].
With these factors a military industrial complex can control a country, speaking for everyone due to the fact of them being politicians. Eisenhower’s warning is very true. Him being the highest general during World War 2 he knew what he was talking about.
Military industrial complexes shouldn’t be taken as a joke they are serious business and if people let this continue to happen pretty soon we won’t be able to stop them.
1 comment:
Choosing to focus on the issues with having politics and the military work side by side what very interesting to read about. With living our everyday lives we dont think about the process of how wars get created and by having the government able to purchase weapons anytime is a major dangerous issues. What stood out to me about the writing was the when in which it was structured. It presented the issues and the early history of how it came to be, going into what is still happening today.
One suggestion that i might have it just to make sure that all punctuation marks are inserted in certain places that need it.
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