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Arming America through the Centuries: War, Business, and Building a National Security State

Arming America through the Centuries: War, Business, and Building a National Security State

Cooling, Benjamin Franklin

Hardcover

Series: Legacies of War

Business GeneralArmed ForcesWorld War I

ISBN10: 1621905861
ISBN13: 9781621905868
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: Sep 29 2022
Pages: 504
Weight: 1.90
Height: 1.50 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

While many associate the concept commonly referred to as the military-industrial complex with President Dwight D. Eisenhower's 1961 farewell address, the roots of it existed two hundred years earlier. This concept, as Benjamin Franklin Cooling writes, was part of historical lore as a burgeoning American nation discovered the inextricable relationship between arms and the State. In Arming America through the Centuries, Cooling examines the origins and development of the military-industrial complex (MIC) over the course of American history. He argues that the evolution of America's military-industrial-business-political experience is the basis for a contemporary American Sparta. Cooling explores the influence of industry on security, the increasing prevalence of outsourcing, ever-present economic and political influence, and the evolving nature of modern warfare. He connects the budding military-industrial relations of the colonial era and Industrial Revolution to their formal interdependence during the Cold War down to the present-day resurrection of Great Power competition. Across eight chronological chapters, Cooling weaves together threads of industry, finance, privatization, appropriations, and technology to create a rich historical tapestry of US national defense in one comprehensive volume.

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