war industry
Defense production sector
The war industry comprises businesses and manufacturing sectors that produce weapons, military equipment, and supplies for armed conflict.
The term often carries critical connotations, suggesting profit-driven interests that benefit from warfare: The war industry lobbied against the peace treaty.
Also called the defense industry or, more pointedly, the military-industrial complex.
- weaponsTools for fighting
- Lockheed MartinAerospace and defense corporation
- supply depotsFacilities storing distributed provisions
- PentagonU.S. military headquarters
- arms raceEscalating weapons accumulation between nations
cold war · iron curtain · arms exports · radar systems · tanks · transport planes · fighter jets · ammunition · bullet casings · defense budgets · missiles · artillery · drones · submarines · stealth technology · body armor · spare parts · satellite imaging
- wartimerationing, war economy, war bonds, war effort, evacuations
- Nazi GermanyAdolf Hitler, Hitler, Nazi, Nazis, Nazi Party
- Canadian WartimeCanadian Army, D-Day, enlistment, home front, homefront
- defense industrydefense contractors, defense spending, defense production, defense budget, defense technology
- war economicswar funding, war effort, mobilization, defense contracts, munitions
- war mobilizationmobilization, troop mobilization, military draft, selective service, mobilization orders
war industrydomestic manufacturing
Goods made locally
construction industry · healthcare industry · education sector · entertainment industry · service sector
war industryfood industry
Commercial edible goods sector
textile industry · entertainment industry · pharmaceutical industry
war industryprivate enterprise
Individually owned business operation
domestic market · market economy · free market economy · domestic economy · free market
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