Describe the military-industrial complex and discuss its influence on defense spending.
What will be an ideal response?
The military-industrial complex has three components: the military establishment, the industries that manufacture weapons, and the members of Congress from states and districts that depend heavily on the arms industry. The military-industrial complex is an aggregation of interests that benefit from a high level of defense spending, regardless of whether all these expenditures are necessary for national security. President Eisenhower warned about the military-industrial complex and the fact that defense spending was big business, and many believe that the size of American defense spending reflects the workings of the military-industrial complex rather than the requirements of national security.
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