The Military Industrial Complex

The Industrial-military Complex

The U.S. Military-Industrial Complex is Circumstantially Unethical

Business ethicists should examine not only business practices but whether a particular type of business is even prima facie ethical. To illustrate how this might be done I here examine the contemporary U.S. defense industry. In the past the U.S. military has engaged in missions that arguably satisfied the just war self-defense rationale, thereby implying that its suppliers of equipment and serv...

Effects of 8 Weeks of Complex Training, Continuous and Interval Aerobic Training on Pulmonary Capacities, Indicators of Respiratory-Pulmonary Necrosis, and Performance of Military Personnel in a Cold and Mountainous Climate

Background and Aim: There is a close and effective relationship between physical fitness and the efficiency of the respiratory system, so it is considered one of the essential factors for success in organizational missions and plays an important role in preventing respiratory problems, especially in cold and mountainous conditions; So, the aim of this study is to investigate the effects of 8 we...

Soviet Industry and the Red Army under Stalin: a Military-industrial Complex?

The paper considers some of the views of the Stalin–era relationship between Soviet industry and the Red Army that are current in the literature, and disentangles some confusions of translation. The economic weight of the defence sector in the economic system is summarised in various aspects. The lessons of recent archival research are used as a basis for analysing the army–industry relationshi...

Configuration management

neering process for establishing and maintaining consistency of a product’s performance, functional and physical attributes with its requirements, design and operational information throughout its life.[1][2] The CM process is widely used by military engineering organizations to manage complex systems, such as weapon systems, vehicles, and information systems. Outside the military, the CM proce...

RUNNING HEAD: ETHICS AND THE TECHNOLOGIES OF EMPIRE Ethics and the Technologies of Empire: E-Learning and the US Military Dr. Norm Friesen Canada Research Chair in E-Learning Practices

Instructional technology, and the cognitivist and systems paradigms that underpin it, grew out of the military-industrial complex during the Cold War. Much as the Pentagon and this military complex defined the architecture of the Internet, they also essentially created, ex nihilo, the fields of instructional technology and instructional design. The results of the ongoing dominance or influence ...