Military Industrial Complex *Military–industrial complex*, or *military–industrial–congressional complex*,<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%E2%80%93industrial_complex#cite_note-1>refers to policy and monetary relationships which exist between legislators <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legislator>, national armed forces<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed_forces>, and the military industrial base that supports them. These relationships include political contributions<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_finance_in_the_United_States>, political approval for military spending<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_spending>, lobbying to support bureaucracies <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureaucracy>, and oversight of the industry. It is a type of iron triangle<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_triangle_%28US_politics%29>.
The expressions permanent war economy<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_war_economy>and war corporatism are related concepts that have also been used in association with this term. The term is also used to describe comparable collusion in other political entities such as the German Empire<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Empire>(prior to and through the first world war), Britain, France and (post-Soviet) Russia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia>. Linguist and anarcho-socialist<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_anarchism>theorist Noam Chomsky <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky> has suggested that "military–industrial complex" is a misnomer because (as he considers it) the phenomenon in question "is not specifically military."[<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%E2%80%93industrial_complex#cite_note-17>He claims, "There is no military–industrial complex: it's just the industrial system operating under one or another pretext (defense was a pretext for a long time)." On Tuesday, January 21, 2014 12:24:56 PM UTC-6, Bruce Majors wrote: > > What's a mic > > On Tuesday, January 21, 2014, plainolamerican > <[email protected]<javascript:>> > wrote: > >> Ron has been squeezed out by zionists and MIC warmongers. >> >> On Monday, January 20, 2014 3:38:02 AM UTC-6, Bruce Majors wrote: >>> >>> http://jonettarosebarras.com/?p=2371 >> >> -- >> -- >> Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. >> For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum >> >> * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ >> * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. >> * Read the latest breaking news, and more. >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "PoliticalForum" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
