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Comment: Military Industrial Complex.

  • UPSC 1992
  • 20 marks
  • State in Comparative Perspective

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The military-industrial complex (MIC) denotes the alliance between a nation's armed forces, the arms industry that supplies them and the political actors whose careers depend on both. The phrase was popularised not by a radical but by a departing soldier-president: in his farewell address of 17 January 1961, Dwight D. Eisenhower urged Americans to "guard…

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