[PDF EPUB] Download Delta of Power: The Military-Industrial Complex by Alex Roland Full Book

Delta of Power: The Military-Industrial Complex by Alex Roland

• Delta of Power: The Military-Industrial Complex
• Alex Roland
• Page: 304
• Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
• ISBN: 9781421441818
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

Delta of Power: The Military-Industrial Complex

Downloading free book Delta of Power: The Military-Industrial Complex

Overview

Does the Military-Industrial Complex as we understand it still exist? If so, how has it changed since the end of the Cold War? First named by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his farewell address, the Military-Industrial Complex, originally an exclusively American phenomenon of the Cold War, was tailored to develop and produce military technologies equal to the existential threat perceived to be posed by the Soviet Union. An informal yet robust relationship between the military and industry, the MIC pursued and won a qualitative, technological arms race but exacted a high price in waste, fraud, and abuse. Today, although total US spending on national security exceeds $1 trillion a year, it accounts for a smaller percentage of the federal budget, the national GDP, and world military spending than during the Cold War. Given this fact, is the MIC as we commonly understand it still alive? If so, how has it changed in the intervening years? In Delta of Power, Alex Roland tells the comprehensive history of the MIC from 1961, the Cold War, and the War on Terror, to the present day. Roland argues that the MIC is now significantly different than it was when Eisenhower warned of its dangers, still exerting a significant but diminished influence in American life. Focusing intently on the three decades since the end of the Cold War in 1991, Roland explains how a lack of cohesion, rapid change, and historical contingency have transformed America's military-industrial institutions and infrastructure. Roland addresses five critical realms of transformation: civil-military relations, relations between industry and the state, among government agencies, between scientific-technical communities and the state, and between technology and society. He also tracks the way in which America's arsenal has evolved since 1991. The MIC still merits Eisenhower's warning of political and moral hazard, he concludes, but it continues to deliver, by a narrower margin, the world's most potent arsenal. An authoritative account of America's evolving arsenal since World War II, Delta of Power is a dynamic exploration of military preparedness and current events.

More eBooks: [Kindle] La graphie de l'horreur - Essai sur la littérature algérienne (1990-2000) download pdf, {pdf download} 9 courtes pièces download link, [Pdf/ePub] The Boy from the Woods by Harlan Coben download ebook read book, [PDF/Kindle] Une jeunesse au temps de la Shoah - Extraits d'Une vie by Simone Veil link, [PDF] POESÍA COMPLETA DE ALBERTO CAEIRO descargar gratis link, {pdf download} Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?! 02 by Yuu Toyota read pdf, Read [Pdf]> Contemporary Patchwork: Techniques in Colour, Surface Design & Sewing by Arounna Khounnoraj pdf, Read [pdf]> Living and Touring with Alice Cooper and Other Stories by Michael Allen site, [PDF/Kindle] What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make by Michael J. Hathaway read pdf, Online Read Ebook Les Jardiniers de la Terre download pdf, {epub download} Heartstopper, Volume 5 by Alice Oseman download link, Download PDF De Saumur à Berchtesgaden - La vie à bras le corps 1939-1945 read pdf,