OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #196, SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology.  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/09/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-196-september.html

Michael Swanson.  The War State.   US National Security State.
Henry Giroux. Confronting the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex.
Sylvia J. Martin.  “UARCs: The American Universities that Produce Warfighters.”  
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.  Research Funded by Pentagon.

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Michael Swanson. The War State: The Cold War Origins Of The Military-Industrial Complex And The Power Elite, 1945-1963.   2013.
Today when you factor in the interest on the national debt from past wars and total defense expenditures the United States spends almost 40% of its federal budget on the military. It accounts for over 46% of total world arms spending. Before World War II it spent almost nothing on defense and hardly anyone paid any income taxes. You can’t have big wars without big government. Such big expenditures are now threatening to harm the national economy. How did this situation come to be?
In this book you’ll learn
-How in the critical twenty years after World War II the United States changed from being a continental democratic republic to a global imperial superpower. Since then nothing has ever been the same again. In this book you will discover this secret history of the United States that formed the basis of the world we live in today.

– How the end of European colonialism created a power vacuum that the United States used to create a new type of world empire backed by the most powerful military force in human history.

– Why the Central Intelligence Agency was created and used to interfere in the internal affairs of other nations when the United States Constitution had no mechanism for such imperial activities.

– How national security bureaucrats got President Harry Truman to approve of a new wild budget busting arms race after World War II that is still going on to this day.

– Why President Eisenhower really gave his famous warning against the “military-industrial complex.”

– Why during the Kennedy administration the nuclear arms race almost led to the end of the world during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

– How President Kennedy tried to deal with what had grown into a “permanent government” of power elite national security bureaucrats in the executive branch of the federal government that had become more powerful than the individual president himself.

In this book you will discover this secret history of the United States that formed the basis of the world we live in today.

Henry Giroux.  The University in Chains: Confronting the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex.  Paradigm, 2007.  “I know of no more acute a commentator on higher education in the United States today.  Profound and unsparing, Giroux’s book concludes with an imaginative strategy to transform the university into a truly democratic institution.”  Howard Zinn.

Sylvia J. Martin.  UARCs: The American Universities that Produce Warfighters.”  (September 7, 2024)

Sylvia Martin reveals the deep linkages between U.S. universities and the military-industrial complex through the Department of Defense’s University Affiliated Research Centers. These programs utilize colleges and universities as research and development labs for the U.S. imperial war machine, blurring the lines between ostensibly independent institutions and the military academy and enabling the further expansion and normalization of the warmaking apparatus throughout U.S. society. | more…

Source

UAF UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FAYETTEVILLE
OMNI MILITARISM/MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX IN ARKANSAS, Anthology #3, November 28, 2021.   http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/11/militarismmilitary-industrial.html
For Example: 
“Research Funded by DoD to Improve Infrared Detectors Used for Night Vision.”  Shui-Qing Fisher Yu and  Gregory Salamo.  UAF Newswire.   Thursday, August 29, 2019.     Military aircraft, missile tracking systems, and ground troops who rely on night-vision systems could benefit from a new generation of infrared imaging devices made with a powerful semiconducting material developed by University of Arkansas researchers and their colleagues at several institutions.
Shui-Qing “Fisher” Yu, associate professor of electrical engineering, and Gregory Salamo, Distinguished Professor of physics, have received a $7.5 million award from the U.S. Department of Defense. . . . MORE