Defending defense, Part II

Rocky Mountain News (2007-Current);  March 14, 2008 ;     654 words ......whether sought or unsought, by the military- industrial complex." Those are words to the wise...who latched on to the phrase "military-industrial complex" as a simplistic buzzword. This...conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of ...

Arguments through the ages; Dwight Eisenhower: Beware the...

Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  January 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ......which he warned of the dangers of a military-industrial complex. The term was the creation of presidential...conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares...compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to ...

Ike at his word.(letters)(Letter to the Editor)

Mechanical Engineering-CIME;  November 1, 2005 ;     218 words ......years ) opened by noting Dwight Eisenhower's first use of the term military-industrial complex, and his concern regarding the creation of a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. It then described the World War II buildup...

Plowshares to Swords and Back

Mechanical Engineering;  July 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......that coined the term "military-industrial complex." Given the state of...United States had no armaments industry," Eisenhower said. "American...to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions...creation of the U.S. armaments industry is breathtaking ...

Plowshares to Swords and Back: the military buildup of World War II led to...

Mechanical Engineering-CIME;  July 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......that coined the term military-industrial complex. Given the state of the...United States had no armaments industry, Eisenhower said. American...to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions...creation of the U.S. armaments industry is breathtaking ...

Commentary: Dwight D. Eisenhower's farewell address to the nation

NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday;  January 14, 2001 ;     700+ words ......districts. When a warning about the dangers of the military-industrial complex idea showed up in an early draft of the speech...establishment. Yet Eisenhower warned that the armaments industry and many politicians had never met a bomb they...influence, whether sought or unsought, by the ...

(book reviews)

Business History;  April 1, 1998 ;     614 words ...Luciano Segreto's book deals with Italy's armaments industry from the perspective of an economic and business...the pioneering work by Trebilock on the British armaments industry, and a fairly comprehensive spate of works on the...

Tanks for this Scotswood memory.(News)

Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England);  October 7, 2004 ;     63 words ......but it is not known why the tank was there. Could it have been a demonstration related to the area's long-standing armaments industry? Any readers in the know can write to Remember When, Evening Chronicle, Groat Market, Newcastle NE1 1ED.

NASA's High and Unjustified Cost

The Washington Post;  July 9, 1993 ;     321 words ......civilian" space agency, NASA, by the military-industrial complex for two bottom-line reasons: It...of the three main players in the armaments industry triangle usually have converged...to satisfy the interests of the "armaments industry triangle." Is NASA necessary? Not...

Accommodate the bear

The Press;  September 8, 2008 ;     123 words ......extremism and terrorism). I suspect that the perpetuation of our distrust of Russia is nurtured by the colossal American armaments industry, and, no doubt, oil is in the equation as well. Will Obama, if elected, dare to move his country's diplomacy towards an...

Salute to death

The Press;  October 16, 2006 ;     85 words ...Congratulations to the world's armaments industry for its greatest year in terms of output and profit. The dead of 1000 wars salute it. The legless from its landmines salute it...

Roddick to quit Body Shop

Evening Standard - London;  September 18, 2000 ;     78 words ......understood to want to stand down by 2002. Her aim, she says, is to "smash the World Trade Organisation and blow up the armaments industry". Miss Roddick, who is worth around 100 million, opened the first Body Shop in Brighton 24 years ago. There are now 1...

Letter: Cancellation of Indonesian arms sales

The Independent - London;  July 30, 1997 ;     68 words ......of the go-ahead for the arms sale of Hawk jets to Indonesia gives the impression of "business as usual" for the British armaments industry. If we cannot rely on New Labour to create an ethical state, we have to take the power for change into our own hands by...

Anywhere, any time

The Press;  August 22, 2007 ;     81 words ......Zealand is a reminder of how implicated our country is in warlike activity. For instance, we have a small but growing armaments industry; we have a huge financial involvement in the arms industry overseas through our superannuation fund. Our best contribution...

EISENHOWER'S FAREWELL GIVES SAGE ADVICE FOR NEXT CENTURY.(PORTSMOUTH...

The Virginian Pilot;  December 26, 1999 ;     700+ words ......the called the new threat, ``The Military Industrial Complex.'' Suddenly, about halfway through...conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares...compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions . . . We annually...