International Congress for Historians

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after the war. He contended that federal involvement continued into the postwar years despite the apparent hegemony of Vannevar Bush's ap proach, which emphasized control by the private sector. Allen Kaufman (University of New Hampshire) argued that the roots of the military industrial complex were laid during the war because of the enormous effectiveness of the contract system and the power of military procurement officers in obtaining sufficient coordination among private firms to produce armaments and other material for the war effort.