The military-industrial complex is one of a series of ideas that aim to critique the manner in which science, technology, and society have interacted with one another since World War II. The term itself was popularized by U.S. president and World War...

President Dwight D. Eisenhower introduced the phrase military-industrial complex in his farewell address of January 17, 1961, using it to refer to the combination of the large defense apparatus established to wage the Cold War (1946–1991) and...

The set of relationships between a defence ministry and the industries supplying weapons and other goods and services for the armed forces. It is argued that this complex is crucial to the functioning of many major capitalist economies as industrial...

A military-industrial complex (MIC) is composed of a nation's armed forces, its suppliers of weapons systems, supplies and services, and its civil government. The term "MIC" is most often used in reference to the United States, where it gained...

SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL AND THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX Professor Stephen Zunes, chair of the Peace and Justice Studies Program at San Francisco University, addressed an audience at the Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine regarding U.S. aid to Israel on Jan. 26. He focused...

Maine's Republican Senator Susan Collins sent around a news release proudly proclaiming that she has helped to bring big money to our state. She says the Senate Appropriations Committee has approved, for fiscal year 2007, $3.4 billion for DDX destroyer ships at Bath...

Russia's foreign minister suggested in an interview broadcast Friday that the United States wants to install an anti-missile system in Eastern Europe to spy on Russia, not to defend Europe from Iranian missiles as Washington claims.Russia has responded angrily to U.S. proposals to base elements...

In July 2004, Zogby International Surveys interviewed 3,300 Arabs in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Asked to identify “the best thing that comes to mind about America,” almost all of the respondents replied: “Nothing at all.” Since then, according...