Texas Republican Blows the Whistle on the Techno-Scholastic Complex
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In 1961, a Republican president, Dwight Eisenhower, closed his term with a speech that carried a prophetic warning. He said:
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. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations.
This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the