> General Eisenhower witnessed this happening.
I know he warned about it in his last speech, but do you have a source or more specifics on how he witnessed it?
I know he warned about it in his last speech, but do you have a source or more specifics on how he witnessed it?
> Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions.
His point wasn’t about specific instances of armaments manufacturers influencing foreign policy, it was simply about the existence of a new and vast industry permanently dedicated to manufacturing armaments.