with all respect to Eisenhower, the biggest problem with the military-industrial complex is not that it became a threat to American liberty and self-government at home, as Eisenhower warned in his famous Farewell Address of 1961. The bigger problem is that over time the military-industrial complex has failed at the one job it had: to get the absolute best technology the nation has to offer into the hands of the US military so that America can stay ahead of its strategic competitors.
