Botswana and the military industrial complex :: Mmegi Online

War is a failure of diplomacy and one of the darkest sides of the human race, something we as a people should be avoiding at all costs. Unfortunately this world has a system that allows some companies to amass huge profits off the US and European foreign policy, which gives these companies a vested interest in creating, continuing and escalating conflict around the world.

This industry of profit through military might is called the Military Industrial Complex. This is a phrase coined by former US president Dwight Eisenhower in his farewell address to the US people in 1961 when he warned of a close relationship between government and the defense industry.

This relationship can produce obvious benefits for both sides with war planners receiving the tools necessary for waging war while also furthering political interests abroad.

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