When we're not in a declared war, nothing about funding the Pentagon is "vital." And the NDAA is "supported" on a bi-partisan basis because Congress is "bought and sold by the Military Industrial Complex" on a bi-partisan basis. Just so we're clear.
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No it wasn't. We didn't even have a standing army until after WW2. And it was Eisenhower's Farewell Address in 1960 where he coined the phrase and warned us about the MIC.

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Good thing the native people just buried themselves? Hamilton-Washington were subversives who subverted the impending revolution into this garbage. Truman regretted CIA like Obama stopped Arctic drilling & stopped standing rock meaning it's staged spy actor drivel, unimpressed
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You are correct. We were 19th in military strength before WWII. We increased our military size and strength after the fall of France but previously we were content with controlling our quadrisphere. Then we saw "economic" potential in a hawkish globalist approach.
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It wasn't an industry. I'm not saying there wasn't violence or militarism. But no, it wasn't an industry until after and as a result of WW2 - and the difference is significant.
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I think Eisenhower removed it himself.
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