Military-industrial complex (nonfiction)
The military–industrial complex (MIC) is an informal alliance between a nation's military and the defense industry which supplies it, seen together as a vested interest which influences public policy.
The term is most often used in reference to the system behind the military of the United States, where it is most prevalent and gained popularity after its use in the farewell address of President Dwight D. Eisenhower on January 17, 1961.
In the News
Mathematician, industrialist, and alleged time-traveller Alice Beta predicts that the emergence of a military-industrial complex will cause a corresponding rise in crimes against mathematical constants.
John Brunner uses a Lee and Turner scrying engine to pre-record Eisenhower's speech about the military-industrial complex.
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External links
- Military–industrial complex @ Wikipedia