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Author Cooling, Benjamin Franklin, III, 1938- author.

Title Arming America through the centuries : war, business, and building a national security state / Benjamin Franklin Cooling, Legacies of War , G. Kurt Piehler, series editor
Edition First edition
Published Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 488 pages)
Series Legacies of war
Contents Chapter 8. National Security since 2001 -- Postscript. The National Security State for Posterity -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
Summary "This book examines the roots of the military industrial complex (MIC) in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the MIC's full flowering in the wake of the Cold War, and how America's current MIC evolved after the events of 9/11 and throughout the War on Terror. Specifically, Cooling argues that the MIC has transformed into a problematic demand for absolute security that is neither practicable nor financially sound. While emphasizing many aspects of Eisenhower's broad conception of the MIC, and Eisenhower's own warning at the close of World War II, Cooling's synthesis provides historical perspective on American industry as a matter of national security, on the rise of outsourcing practices, and on the changing nature of modern warfare"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969 -- Oratory
SUBJECT Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969 fast
Subject Military-industrial complex -- United States -- History
Weapons industry -- United States -- History
Defense industries -- United States -- History
Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States -- History
Defense industries
Military-industrial complex
Oratory
Rhetoric -- Political aspects
Weapons industry
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021055865
ISBN 9781621905875
162190587X