Military-Industrial Complex

Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. The military-industrial complex and impacts on the third world. 3. The military industrial firm private enterprise revised. 4. War and the military-industrial complex. 5. The military-industrial complex and the rise of neo-conservatism. 6. Arms transfers and trade. 7. Trends in military expenditure and arms transfers. 8. The prison industrial complex. 9. US military-industrial complex: control the earth and its eco-system. 10. Arms control and disarmament. Bibliography. Index.

Military Industrial Complex (MIC) is  concept commonly used to refer to policy relationships between governments, national armed forces and the industrial sector that supports them.

The first modern Military Industrial Complex (MIC) arose in Britain, France and Germany in the 1880s and 1890s a part of the need to defend their respective empires either on the ground or at sea. The naval rivalry between Britain and Germany and France and their revenge sentiment against German Empire that followed he Franco-Prussian war was of utmost significance in the inception growth and development of these MICs." (jacket)