“I think it’s time to tell the military-industrial complex they cannot get everything they want,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders. “It’s time to pay attention to the needs of working families.”
“I think it’s time to tell the military-industrial complex they cannot get everything they want,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders. “It’s time to pay attention to the needs of working families.”
I’m not looking for an inconsistency, I’m looking for a boundary. if the boundary for both “the MIC is everything that supports the military down to the air they breathe” and “the MIC gets everything they want”, it seems like that would exclude an awful lot of what we traditionally think of as the MIC, including the military.
It’s pretty straightforward, the MIC is essentially the structure behind and around the military, namely defense contractors, the Pentagon, and politicians. AFAIK it doesn’t actually include the rank and file armed services members. It’s worth mentioning the term gained popular attention due to a speech by outgoing President Dwight D. Eisenhower, himself a retired 5 star general.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military-industrial_complex
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