military-industrial complex

mil·i·tar·y-in·dus·tri·al complex

(mĭl′ĭ-tĕr′ē-ĭn-dŭs′trē-əl)n. The aggregate of a nation's armed forces and the industries that supply their equipment, materials, and armaments.

military-industrial complex

n (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (in the US) the combined interests of the military establishment and industries involved in producing military material considered as exerting influence on US foreign and economic policy

mil′itary-indus′trial com′plex

n. a nation's armed forces together with the industries that supply them. [1960–65]

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military-industrial complex - a country's military establishment and the industries that produce arms and other military equipment; "we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex"--Dwight David Eisenhowervested interest - groups that seek to control a social system or activity from which they derive private benefit

military-industrial complex

Fig. 20 Militant and industrial societies. Spencer's contrasts between militant and industrial societies. This table (from Smelser, 1968) is derived from Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Sociology, 1897.

military-industrial complex

a term introduced to the general public in a famous 1950s speech by President Eisenhower, in which he warned that the social structure of American society was becoming increasingly dominated by military and economic imperatives arising from the ARMS RACE. The suggestion that the capitalist economy has been dependent on a continuation of arms expenditure is controversial (compare TENDENCY TO DECLINING RATE OF PROFIT, OVERPRODUCTION AND UNDERCONSUMPTION). However, that the continuation of the COLD WAR (e.g. Thompson, 1982) significantly distorted the economies and political systems of the major powers, limiting the possibility of reform, is borne out by changes in the subsequent era of greater detente, (see PERESTROIKA, GLASNOST), and the collapse of Soviet power.

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noun a country's military establishment and the industries that produce arms and other military equipment

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