as an aside, the seeds of the military-industrial complex started with WWI (from observing japan and germany), not WWII, though it didn’t really get going until

as an aside, the seeds of the military-industrial complex started with WWI (from observing japan and germany), not WWII, though it didn’t really get going until the impending second war impelled it into overdrive via the reconstituted war production board. and it didn’t really become part of the popular vernacular until 1961 via eisenhower’s speech about it. by then it was already an entrenched part of our gdp, to our collective detriment (it uncovered for other industries the government teat from which to suck money).