The Political Economy of the Origins of the Military-Industrial Complex in the United States.

Argues that the coalescing of business, military and political interest groups in support of a military build-up in the United States during peacetime occurred in the years between the Civil War and World War I. Insight into the origin of the military-industrial complex in the United States; Warning issued by former United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his farewell address to the American people in 1960.