Military-Industrial Complex
Comments reference historical military figures like Smedley Butler, Eisenhower, McNamara, and Rumsfeld, critiquing war profiteering, the military-industrial complex, and defense policy mistakes.
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Smedley Butler, previously on HNhttps://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Errol Morris' documentary on McNamara, The Fog of War is well worth your time to watch.The parallels with Donald Rumsfeld's time as Secretary of Defense are remarkable - it seems Rumsfeld was making all the moves and mistakes that McNamara made. I fully expect Eric Schmidt to suffer the same fate.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fog_of_War
Why is this flagged?It is written by Michael Hayden who is a former director of the Central Intelligence Agency (2006 - 2009 while the president was G.W.Bush) and the National Security Agency (1999 - 2005 starting while the president was Clinton and continuing under G.W.Bush), surely somebody who's opinion is worth reading (and discussing!).https://en.wikipedia.org/
Happy to see this discussed on HN.Please, please read this to get a better understanding for yourself: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/eisenhower001.asp
This comes close: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppenheimer_security_hearing
Obligatory reference to Smedley Darlington Butlerhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler
Do check out the author, major general Smedley Butler USMChttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler
Rickover was no saint himself, see the articles linked here -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38383206 - in the discussion about sama citing him.
I would just make sure that you read this article to complement it: https://quietwarriors.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/...
No less a person than the Chairman of the joint chiefs is said to have thought otherwise. You may find this historical comparison of interest: https://johnganz.substack.com/p/feb-6-1934jan-6-2021