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Not Yet A Garrison State: Reconsidering Eisenhower's Military–Industrial Complex

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2015

Jeffrey A. Engel
Jeffrey A. Engel*
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4220 TAMU, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-4220, USA. Email: jaengel@tamu.edu
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Dwight Eisenhower's farewell address continues to resonate, beyond this admirable special edition of Enterprise & Society. The term he employed to describe the influence of corporations and financial interests over national defense policy, the “military–industrial complex,” usefully summarized phenomenon of his time. It also depicts an ongoing and arguably even structural phenomenon within contemporary American society. Ike would therefore appear in retrospect one part keen observer, another prophet. As the articles in this forum collectively suggest, the ideas embedded within his now-famous phrase continue to frame contemporary scholarship fifty years after his final Oval Office speech, though with a far narrower lens than Ike envisioned, and with less dire societal results than he feared. The military–industrial complex is both more real, and less frightening, than he foretold. At least, so far.

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Enterprise & Society , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , March 2011 , pp. 175 - 199
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2011. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved.

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