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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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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You got to go back to the puppet masters of WWI. American military, engineers, economists & diplomats carried the American System of Economics over the Atlantic and Pacific. Even then, the #DeepState was angry at losing power!
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The British dominated trade using colonies such as India or African nations as sources of cheap raw materials and slave labor. The transcontinental rail projects of the post-civil war period were a mortal threat to the historic maritime-based power of the British Empire.