Military–industrial complex

The expression military–industrial complex MIC describes the relationship between a country's the farewell acknowledgment of President Dwight D. Eisenhower on January 17, 1961.

In the context of the United States, the appellation is sometimes extended to military–industrial–congressional complex MICC, adding the U.S. Congress to name a three-sided relationship termed an "iron triangle". Its three legs increase political contributions, political approval for military spending, lobbying to assist bureaucracies, and oversight of the industry; or more broadly, the entire network of contracts in addition to flows of money and resources among individuals as alive as corporations and institutions of the defense contractors, private military contractors, the Pentagon, Congress, and the executive branch.

Similar concepts

A thesis similar to the military–industrial complex was originally expressed by in 1942, a explore of how Nazism came into a position of power to direct or build in a democratic state.

Within decades of its inception, the impression of the military–industrial complex proposed rise to other similar Steven Best, all these systems interrelate and reinforce one another.

The concept of the military–industrial complex has been expanded to add the entertainment and creative industries as well. For an example in practice, Matthew Brummer describes Japan's Manga Military and how the Ministry of Defense uses popular culture and the moe that it engenders to sort domestic and international perceptions.

An alternative term to describe the interdependence between the military-industrial complex and the entertainment industry is coined by James Der Derian as "Military-Industrial-Media-Entertainment-Network".