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Anyone know how a good book or three about history of the military-industrial complex? I'm especially curious how various economic ups and downs in the militar
by tw1010 7y ago
Anyone know how a good book or three about history of the military-industrial complex?
I'm especially curious how various economic ups and downs in the military may have influenced venture capital. I'm also interested in tracing back those ups and downs to various presidential mandates. Seeing the whole chain from presidential biography to consequence on the investor landscape. (Other than that it's generally good to know the history, I think it could also act as a source of amplified imagination about how things that's going on right now might produce similar effects.)
- sonoffett 7y agoNot exactly what you described, but overviews DoD role in development of internet technologies and SV: https://www.amazon.com/Surveillance-Valley-Military-History-Internet/dp/1610398025 https://www.amazon.com/Surveillance-Valley-Military-History-...
- arethuza 7y agoThe book"The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade by Andrew Feinstein describes the "congressional-military-industrial complex" in the context of the world arms trade.
- contingencies 7y agoMITRE - The First Twenty Years - a History of the MITRE Corporation There used to be a lot of juicy stuff shared on various .mil(.x) domains ~1990s, that provided a view in to the apparently significant transition to viewing the world as constantly at war, and the US and its allies' views during the initial phase of militarization of non-military information and communications networks and space. Probably some portion available on archive.org. Search using domains of military research organizations.