<reposted correctly as a reply to toomuchtodo's comment. see it there.> /noob
It's a fact that the military-industrial complex exists to protect the military-industrial complex. Our nation's independence was sold to moneyed interests in the last century.
> government with an organized-crime-level-of-corruption.
We're getting there, military or not.
No it's not.
You should have seen what the government was like with patronage appointments, or under Harding. The corruption was literally institutionalized.