Category: Power Networks

• The Military-Industrial Complex Warning

  A theory built around Eisenhower’s January 17, 1961 farewell address, arguing that his famous warning about the “military-industrial complex” was not merely a caution about future risk but a public confession that a permanent network of defense contractors, military leadership, laboratories, and political interests had already escaped meaningful presidential control. In this reading, the speech is treated as a rare coded admission from the outgoing head of state.