Damn the Torpedoes! – How a 19th Century Innovation in Naval Warfare Produced the Military Industrial Complex

In his 1961 farewell address, outgoing president Dwight D. Eisenhower famously warned of the dangers posed to the American republic by what he called “military industrial complex”. According to Ike, the armaments industry, which had…

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