What did eisenhower mean by the military industrial complex. I kinda understand but can I have an easier more direct explanation. Thank you
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Maintaining a fully equipped military is very expensive, and something that most countries in fact struggle with. It’s hard to justify these expenses just for defensive purposes and what if scenarios, but when a military is actively engaged in an ongoing conflict, a lot of money is poured into the equipment and weapon systems. This means that in order to have a thriving war economy, you constantly need to have wars going on somewhere.
The military industrial complex is a collection of arms manufacturers that basically lobby the government to buy more weapons, and to do that the government has to justify these purchases, meaning they need to convince the public that they are necessary, which is usually accomplished by convincing the public they are under threat and the only way to stop it is through war, somewhere. So it’s a feedback loop of an always running war machine that always requires more and more weapons.
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