Military–industrial complex
The military–industrial complex (MIC) is a phrase originally coined by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower to describe the relationship between the military and the defense industry that supplies it with weapons, equipment, and services.

Originally, the military-industrial complex referred to the nexus of defense contractors and policymakers that existed in the United States during the early Cold War, but it has since been applied to similar arrangements in other countries and time periods. The phrase implies a commonality of interest and action between MIC actors that influences public policy, and it is often applied in a critical or pejorative sense. Conceptually, it is closely related to the ideas of the iron triangle (the three-sided relationship between Congress, the executive branch bureaucracy, and interest groups) and the defense industrial base (the network of organizations, facilities, and resources that supplies governments with defense-related goods and services).
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