1/ At the onset of WW2 the United States did not even have a standing military...and along with others we still won the war. It was only at the end of WW2 that the “defense industry” was created....
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2/ ...leading President Eisenhower (who was also the Supreme Allied commander in WW2) to warn us about the “military industrial complex.”npr.org/2011/01/17/132942244…
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3/ The myth has been created that a huge defense industry is necessary for our security. Yet it is nothing but that: a myth. The gargantuan size of our military expenditure does not represent increased safety for us or for others; in many ways it represents more danger.
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