Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Military-Industrial Complex
In the era of cyberwarfare, walls between business, civil society and the army make us less safe.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned of “the military-industrial complex” in his January 1961 farewell address. The term has become a powerful bogeyman, implying a conspiracy between the military and its suppliers to operate in their own interests. But in today’s security environment, Western countries need a military-industrial complex—a real one, not a bogeyman.
“The term military-industrial complex is primarily used to describe the armed forces and the companies that make their equipment, but today our adversaries are...