Eisenhower warned of the threats of the military industrial complex driving American foreign policy.
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While doves are aflutter with the notion that the military-industrial complex is on the march, nobody expects Japan to become a major weapons exporter anytime soon.
It also is obliging Boris Yeltsin to participate in such a bidding process -- adding greatly to the already immense costs to Russia and the other new states of sustaining the military-industrial complex which should be the first to go over the budgetary side.
Abandoning such policies -- whether in deference to the military-industrial complex or to its erstwhile advocates in the parliament -- cannot be allowed to proceed without an attendant reduction in U.S. financial, technological and other forms of support.
Given the size of the military-industrial complex, there's no shortage of analysts focused on aerospace and defense companies.
These individuals -- such as Civic Union's chairman, Arkady Volsky -- have long been closely associated with the military-industrial complex.
The Military-Industrial Complex proves an obstinate foe for the Deficit Reduction Committee.
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In fact, it is a prime beneficiary of the military-industrial complex.
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Policymakers need to think through how electronics is different from other parts of the military-industrial complex, and what combinations might be acceptable to the government customer.
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Prof Zhimulev also favours Mr Ivanov because as deputy prime minister he has been given special responsibility for science and technology as well as the military-industrial complex.
Even once the answers to these questions are in hand, it is far from clear whether U.S. assistance in the name of conversion of the Soviet military industrial complex is a good idea.
Dwight Eisenhower, for all his considerable achievements both before and during his presidency, is largely remembered for a single speech at the end of his eight-year term warning the country about the military-industrial complex.
Even the abstract principles being fought over in this budget round are not the defining issues separating libertarians, conservatives and liberals on the question of whither goest the American welfare state and the military-industrial complex.
Should the pressure for such reforms now be relieved thanks to American capital infusions, it is predictable that the Russian energy sector will simply serve once again as a multibillion-dollar annual revenue stream for the preservation of the military-industrial complex.
That should start with the wholesale dismantling of the vast military-industrial complex and the reallocation of its assets and personnel to meet the crushing need for consumer goods and services.
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Mr. Yeltsin -- and the Russian military-industrial complex and security apparatus to which he is increasingly beholden -- have asserted that the repeal of statutes derided as the "legacy of the Cold War" is a litmus test of the U.S. commitment to Russian reform.
The workforce associated with what a generation of Americans were encouraged to revile as the "military-industrial complex" has contracted dramatically.
That area is often described as the place where the Internet was invented, but today it looks increasingly like the center of the global military-industrial complex.
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The presumption in most quarters seems to be that the Russian military, its supporting industrial complex and the intelligence community have backed Yeltsin over the parliament out of a preference for democracy and free market reform with which the President has generally been associated.
Indeed, the bottom line for Moscow appears to be the goal of making its military-industrial complex more efficient, achieving higher productivity even as the costs associated with the manufacture of state-of-the-art military hardware are reduced.
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Alternatively, Russia may simply seek to apply Syria's outstanding debt to future arms purchases -- thereby, bartering away an otherwise unrecoverable debt and helping to preserve the ex-Soviet military-industrial complex.
One of many bad ideas emerging as the Bush administration aligns itself ever more closely with the regime of Mikhail Gorbachev is the proposition that the United States should help the Soviet central authorities convert some of their military-industrial complex to civilian uses.
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You know, we only have a military-industrial complex until a time of danger, and then it becomes the arsenal of democracy.
The start of a French military campaign this month in the northwest African nation of Mali and a four-day siege of an industrial complex by militants in Algeria has cast extremism there in a new light.
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