Dwight D. Eisenhower – “Ike” – was a towering war-time general, a two-term president, and a Republican.
Fifty years ago today, in his farewell speech as president to the nation, he famously warned against what he called “the military-industrial complex”. Against the influence on America’s democracy, its thinking, its soul of the huge internal interests that gather around military spending and power.
We’re diving in today to what Ike meant, exactly, and the sway of those interests today — listening back to Eisenhower on the military-industrial complex.
Thank you for posting this. I was reminded of this video after listening to the Kennedy speech Joe posted. I think it's as important.
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