Military–Industrial Complex, Organization and History

The military–industrial complex (MIC) has never been a neutral term. Dwight Eisenhower coined the term MIC in 1961 during his farewell address to warn the nation of a looming danger. The threat to democracy has been a recurrent theme in many studies of the MIC since Eisenhower's warning, including works by Gordon Adams, Sydney Lens, Ann Markusen and Joel Yudken, and Seymour Melman. At a descriptive level, the MIC refers to military agencies and …