The U.s. Military Industrial Complex: Empire Pillar And Challenges

The military-industrial complex is defined as an informal and changing coalition of groups with vested psychological, moral, political and material interest around defense dollar. The groups include such diverse persons as Congressmen, labor leaders, corporation executives, the executive officers, church spokesmen, university professors, and professional soldiers, along with the host of followers and families dependent upon them. The core of the complex is the unique relationship among national security departments, Congress, academic institutes and military industrial companies.As a special political and economic power in American society, military-industrial complex emerged in the cold war and play a particular and profound role in American policies at home and aboard. It helps us understand the policy-making process and the operation of contemporary American democratic politics to in-depth study the super interest group.My focus centers on military-industrial complex's government relations. I unfold the political and social relationships which are not revealing, show it how to influence dominantly other power, urge the United States to increasingly enter into the heavily military coloration and make the tension between domestic democracies and so called national security in American political framework. The military-industrial complex is not only one of the pillars of the empire, but also one of the seeds towards the grave.The military-industrial complex is the results of the cold war, also the consequences of the evolution of American democracy, with the people's fear from the traditional of anti-political, anti-economic and anti-military. The military-industrial complex is a big society and American society is a military-industrial complex. The military-industrial complex trade two commodities: information and influence. It gets information from Congress and the Executive branches and exerts its political influences to them by such diverse channels as financial or boards network, political action committees, personal transfers, grass-roots mobilizations, the Washington office, advertising, entertainment, national strategy, weapon sales, military aids, military research and development, adversary committees and others.A stable democracy requires relatively moderate tension among the contending political forces. It can be found from the proposition that the military-industrial complex play the major negatives role in American democracy: first, it encourages the trends of the centralization of state power. Second, it forms a close clique which excludes public participation and alternative perspectives. It monopolizes the debate upon national security and weapon procurements, and confuses the boundaries between the public and private. Thus it shakes the foundation of democracy. Third, the military-industrial complex is becoming the rooted causes of the regional and global violence and instability which are threatening the stability and development of democracy.However, the military-industrial complex has two sides like a coin. It is one of the pillars of the stable democracy. On the one hand, the military-industrial complex, in the name of national security, fights for tyrannies and maintains the stability and development of American democracy in the world. On the other hand, the military-industrial complex gives its impacts upon American democratic order,but it is itself one of the various conflicts within the community. What's more, it is the main tools of implementing the Empire's strategy. The survival of the Empire depends on the stability of American democracy; therefore, the military-industrial complex is not only one of the pillars of the Empire, but also one of the seeds towards the grave.