Still disagree with your comment about there being no military industrial complex, Eisenhower knew a lot more than you do, being president as well as a former army general, and if he said there is an military industrial complex, then he was probably telling the truth.
Yes, there's money to be made selling weapons to the DOD. There's also money to be made building infrastructure and removing snow from the roads. It is true that local, state, and federal government will pay contractors to do stuff.
STANAG = Standardization Agreement. Almost all Western aligned (Japan Korea, etc) but non-NATO and non-aligned states (India, etc) also adopt it as their standard, It saves the time and ci=ost of developing your own and broadens the list of possible supliers - and competition lowers costs.
Example of how stringent security can be. One of my classmates in ROTC was denied a commission in Military Intelligence despite her earning a BA in Russian History and Language. Why? Her mother was a security risk. She was Canadian who had never obtained US citizenship. Army Regulations having that close a relative not be a US citizen is grounds for disqualification.
Still disagree with your comment about there being no military industrial complex, Eisenhower knew a lot more than you do, being president as well as a former army general, and if he said there is an military industrial complex, then he was probably telling the truth.
He said it was true when Eisenhower said it.
Disagree with you disagreeing.
Yes, there's money to be made selling weapons to the DOD. There's also money to be made building infrastructure and removing snow from the roads. It is true that local, state, and federal government will pay contractors to do stuff.
Very interesting and informative. High five
The old “appeal to their vanity, ego and pride” schickt
STANAG = Standardization Agreement. Almost all Western aligned (Japan Korea, etc) but non-NATO and non-aligned states (India, etc) also adopt it as their standard, It saves the time and ci=ost of developing your own and broadens the list of possible supliers - and competition lowers costs.
Example of how stringent security can be. One of my classmates in ROTC was denied a commission in Military Intelligence despite her earning a BA in Russian History and Language. Why? Her mother was a security risk. She was Canadian who had never obtained US citizenship. Army Regulations having that close a relative not be a US citizen is grounds for disqualification.