In his final speech from the White House before leaving office, President Dwight D. Eisenhower cautioned the American public to: [G]uard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. While many hold Eisenhower’s words up as a warning against corporatist influence on defense spending, the narrative that an all-powerful defense industry acts as a market leviathan simply is not true. The U.S. defense industrial base has been hollowing out and consolidating for decades, leaving defense acquisition officials with numerous single points … Continue reading Eisenhower Meets Trump: A New Defense Industrial Base Strategy