military-industrial complex
Arms-government profit alliance
The military-industrial complex is the network of relationships between a nation's armed forces, weapons manufacturers, and political interests that benefit from defense spending.
The term suggests these entities reinforce each other's power and budgets, potentially influencing policy toward militarism regardless of actual security needs.
Coined by President Eisenhower in his 1961 farewell address as a warning: We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence by the military-industrial complex.
- vested interestPersonal stake in outcome
- air forceMilitary aviation branch
- armamentsCollective military weapons
- aerospaceAtmosphere plus outer void
- war economyProduction geared toward conflict
guns and butter · superweaponry · defense contractors · aviation · weapons · arms race · revolving door · war profiteering · Eisenhower · iron triangle · defense · shadow government · wartime production · warfare · national security · arms control · procurement · black budget
- Eisenhower EraDwight Eisenhower, Ike, Richard Nixon, Nixon, farewell address
- strategystrategy, grand strategy, tactics, tactic, tactical
- American HegemonyMonroe Doctrine, manifest destiny, territorial expansion, interventionism, regime change
- Truman EraTruman, Truman Doctrine, Fair Deal, buck stops here, whistle-stop tour
- defense procurementdefense contracts, defense contracting, government contracts, bidding, bids
military-industrial complexgreen economy
Environmentally conscious market system
tech sector · service economy · domestic manufacturing · healthcare industry · education sector
military-industrial complexpeace movement
Campaign advocating nonviolent resolution
antiwar movement · anti-war movement · grassroots activism · civil society · demilitarization
military-industrial complexpacifism
Antiwar moral stance
diplomacy · multilateralism · disarmament · soft power · internationalism
military, industrial, complex, militia, militant, militarism, militaristic, militarize, militarized