The Military Industrial Complex: 50 Years Later

By Judy Kaul

January 17, 2011 – President Dwight Eishenhower warned the nation about a rising military industry in the United States in his farwell speech in 1961. He called it the Military Industrial Complex. Commentator Judy Kaul says the nation has not heeded that warning.

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