Russia plans to significantly step up its military spending once again in 2025. Both the production of weapons and the recruitment of soldiers are becoming increasingly expensive. Over the past two years, strong government demand has triggered a war boom in parts of the Russian economy. Incomes...

This paper examines the military-industrial complex (MIC), which is a prototype widely imitated by other business sectors. Collectively, they constitute a variety of capitalism which can be termed the poly-industrial complex (PIC). Understanding the MIC is cri-tical to understanding contemporary...

"This volume contains a collection of articles by leading thinkers in economics, political economy and history. They explore the enduring challenges of avoiding war and ensuring peace. In addition to the clash of national political and economic interests, the economic system and character of the...

This chapter explores the military-industrial complex, which refers to the relationship between private defense contractors and public officials. The chapter discusses the origins of the military-industrial complex and how public choice insights illuminate the relationship between private and...

The concept of the 'military-industrial complex'- which describes an alliance between a nation's military troops, its defense industry as its main supplier, and parts of the political apparatus - is already commonly used when speaking about the US situation. The paper investigates whether the...

This paper first discusses the origins of the military-industrial complex in the United States. We then explore several ways that public choice economics can illuminate our understanding of the military-industrial complex. Specifically, we focus on the following issues. Defense contractors...

In the wake of the Russo-Ukrainian War's escalation, and the vagaries of the conflict (e.g. reports of NATO "running out of weapons") the military-industrial balance between NATO and Russia has acquired a new topicality. This note attempts a comprehensive comparison of NATO (and more...

"This book examines the roots of the military industrial complex (MIC) in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the MIC's full flowering in the wake of the Cold War, and how America's current MIC evolved after the events of 9/11 and throughout the War on Terror. Specifically, Cooling argues...

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,...

Part I. Theological Foundations : --1.The business of war in the Bible /Myles Werntz --2.Christian ethics and the problems of war and business /Christina G. McRorie --Part II. The Business of War in History : --3.Globalization and warmaking : people, planet, and peace in peril /Pamela K....

"In Drums of War, Drums of Development, Jim Glassman analyses the geopolitical economy of industrial development in East and Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War era, showing how it was shaped by the collaborative planning of US and Asian elites. Challenging both neo-liberal and neo-Weberian...

"Plus de 160000 personnes travaillent dans l'industrie de l'armement. D'ici peu il y aura presque autant d'employés dans l'armement que dans l'automobile, la chimie et la pharmacie réunies. Les milliards pleuvent sur ce secteur qui fabrique sous-marins, avions, hélicos et blindés. La France,...

"During World War II, the United States helped vanquish the Axis powers by converting its enormous economic capacities into military might. Producing nearly two-thirds of all the munitions used by Allied forces, American industry became what President Franklin D. Roosevelt called 'the arsenal of...

Phoenix from the ashes? --The origins and the nature of the Russian OPK --Domestic drivers for Russian OPK success --External drivers for OPK success: arms transfers to China --External drivers for OPK success: arms transfers to India --External drivers for OPK success: emerging markets.

"Paul Hellyer's amazing book reveals how a small group of greedy men usurped the people's power, and used politicians to transfer that power to a Cabal dedicated to a New World Order imposed by an unelected, unaccountable world government. The "world crisis" can be traced to the Cabal that is...