US Military-industrial Complex Research Articles

Trends of the US Military-Industrial Complex on the example of the analysis of the National Defense Industrial Strategy

The article examines the main trends in the US military-industrial complex in the new geopolitical environment. The publication of the first National Defense Industrial Strategy at the end of 2023 reflected the views of the country's military establishment on the changed military environment in the world and confirmed the unpreparedness of the US defense industry for a potential conflict with an equal rival. The analysis of the key provisions of the Strategy gives an idea of the main directions of reforms of the country's defense industry, in order to prepare it for a likely high-intensity military conflict. The article makes an attempt to identify the main directions of reforms, the implementation of which becomes the most important task of the country to preserve the military-industrial base in the event of a direct military clash.

US military-industrial complex under the influence of the ukrainian conflict

This study is devoted to the study of the state of the military-industrial complex under the influence of the Ukrainian conflict, problems and prospects of development. The work is relevant due to the escalation of the conflict in Ukraine and the use of American weapons by the Armed Forces of Ukraine against Russian units during a special military operation. The article investigates such issues of the military-industrial complex as the gap between the civilian and military industries of the United States, the dependence of the American defense industry on foreign manufacturers and developers, the lack of complete chains of weapons creation and the unsuitability of American models for high-intensity conflict. The study particularly considers the relationship between civil and military production and the importance of a developed industry for the military-industrial complex. The paper focuses on the ideology of the creation and production of products of the American defense industry and their inconsistency with the conditions of a high-intensity conflict. The work emphasizes the need for serious financial injections and socio-economic reforms in any possible scenario for the development of the US military-industrial complex.

Psy wojny kontra kundle pokoju: siła hybrydowości w powieści Vieta Thanha Nguyena „Sympatyk"

The protagonist-narrator of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel, as he often repeats, is a person of two minds. As the child of a Vietnamese woman and a French Catholic priest, he becomes a „hybrid” on the genetic level and later also in the cultural sphere. His upbringing has not only been influenced by the Catholic religion, communist indoctrination but also by the American literary canon, as he has graduated from a literary studies program in the US. He is a communist spy in the South Vietnamese Army during the war, and after the fall of South Vietnam he escapes to the United States as one of the few refugees. Loyal to the communist revolution in the US, he continues his intelligence activities going to any lengths and using any means considered necessary. The nameless narrator is not only a character that reminds a hero from a Hollywood action movie, but also a hybrid – a man who, through diversity or perhaps the merging of mutually exclusive identities, inhabits the sphere in between. This phenomenon, called nepantlerismo by Gloria Anzaldúa, means consciously navigating the gaps between the binary oppositions of those who belong to neither of the two sides. In the article, I look at the phenomenon of hybridity and consider to what measure it can be seen as an antidote to national chauvinism, imperialism and violence. I also examine what Viet Thanh Nguyen in his scholarly work calls the „industrialization of memory,” viewing Hollywood as a tool for producing memories of the Vietnam War operating within the US military-industrial complex.

The crisis of the US military-industrial complex — experience of overcoming

The use of effective methods of anti-crisis management is extremely important for the modern economy, science, military-industrial complex, which in most countries suffer from breaks in supply chains and the sanctions crisis. The use of foreign experience, which has proven itself in practice, will allow you to get results faster than using your own «trial and error» approach. The effective experience of anti-crisis management of the US military-industrial complex under the conditions of contraction of domestic demand in the 1990s seems to be extremely promising for spreading to broad areas of developed and developing economies. Understanding this success, analyzing the conditions that preceded it, adapting the results of the analysis to national realities — all this will allow the country applying this experience to more effectively withstand the crisis. The analysis presented in the article allows us to conclude that the US military-industrial complex crisis of the 1990s is associated with the reduction of excessive funding of the 80s to the usual level of the Cold War. It has been determined that even a return to such a «commonness» led to a number of financial problems in the American military-industrial complex. It led to a reduction in personnel and production capacity, the threat of loss of competencies and technologies. The article analyzes in detail the measures taken by the US government and the management of private companies, which made it possible to bring the US military-industrial complex out of this crisis. A diagram of the relationship between these measures is presented. The results of the analysis can be applied far beyond the sphere of the military-industrial complex — in the development of science, civil industry, and the innovative sector of the economy.

Conceptualizing the European military-civilian-industrial complex: the need for a helicopter perspective

ABSTRACTIn his 1961 farewell address, US President Eisenhower coined the term “military-industrial complex,” referring to the coalescing of military, industrial, and political interest groups. In contemporary Europe, the military-industrial complex is arguably transforming into a complex with a noteworthy commercial civilian dimension, blurring traditional military and arms-focused understandings of European defence and security. Our emphasis on an added corporate civilian component captures the expansion of defence and security beyond the traditional military domain. Coalescing of industry and politics is observed in Europe, blurring the military-civilian divide, technologically as well as in organization and governance, particularly through public-private partnerships. Eisenhower, himself a decorated WWII general, warned of how the US military-industrial complex could lead to “disastrous use of misplaced power.” Rather than reiterating such a conclusion in the European context, our paper examines how the European military-civilian-industrial complex is emerging, looking at how elite participants shape the public-private structure of the complex, and specifically how policies on dual-use and emerging technologies influence developments in Europe. The focus herein is on novel actors, characteristics, and the European Union and charts out defining conceptual features of the defence and security industry in Europe.

The Internet Shutdown and Revolutionary Politics: Defining the Infrastructural Power of the Internet

The solution to the accumulation of authoritarian power enhanced by the Internet will not emerge from within the Internet itself; rather, the only radical and enduring response to the kind of networked authoritarianism that is becoming pervasive globally must regard attacking the extractivist foundation of Internet materiality as the primary and most effective antifascist tactic. Far from being a recent emergence of authoritarian infrastructure, however, the Internet was developed by the US military-industrial complex and has always carried the imprint of authoritarian utility. The Internet is now a pervasive infrastructural feature of global capitalism and its state accomplices, and the deliberate temporary stoppage of Internet functioning by state actors, a so-called Internet “shutdown” or “kill switch,” illustrates the primary purpose of this infrastructure is to defend state power and capitalist commerce. Liberal attempts to reform the Internet are misguided, and anti-authoritarians should adopt an abolitionist position regarding the Internet as infrastructure. The primary strategy for such a form of abolitionism should focus its efforts on shutting down the extractive industries that provide the material substrate of the Internet.

The US military-industrial complex in the modern period

This study is devoted to the state of the US defense industry in the modern period. The paper examines the current situation and issues of the development of the defense industry of the United States. The article examines the key areas of activity of the industry: military shipbuilding, aircraft construction and the armored industry. The main problems of the military-industrial complex are highlighted: the lack of specialists, the rupture of economic ties, the loss of key competencies and technologies. Possible methods of solving the current system challenges facing the American defense industry have been identified.

New Technology and the US MIC

This article considers what could be a fundamental development in the defence industrial base (DIB) in the US, namely the increased involvement of commercial technology companies in military-related business. After an outline of the dynamics and longer-term post-Cold War developments in the international arms industry, it investigates recent changes in the Pentagon's attitudes and policies to gain access to new technologies from the commercial and academic sectors. It also considers the military, technological and political drivers that have led to these technologies being sought from commercial companies for military use. It then considers the recent engagement of the major commercial technology companies in activities for the military sector and what is driving them to take up military contracts. Finally, it considers what these developments imply for the dynamics of the arms industry and the relationships within the DIB and the military industrial complex (MIC).

Review: ¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now, by E. Carmen Ramos, Tatiana Reinoza, Terezita Romo, and Claudia E. Zapata

Review: <i>¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now</i>, by E. Carmen Ramos, Tatiana Reinoza, Terezita Romo, and Claudia E. Zapata

TRENDS IN THE DYNAMICS OF THE MILITARY-TECHNOLOGICAL COMPLEX INDUSTRY IN THE GLOBAL MARKET

The article examines current trends in the development of the global market of military-technical products. The author draws attention to the steady growth dynamics of purchases of military-industrial products in the world. The article describes key global trends in the development of promising innovative developments of dual-use goods. Since the end of the Cold War, global military research and development (R &amp; D) has found itself in a situation of declining demand for its products. During this period, there was a reduction in military spending in the former Soviet Union and in many other countries. The United States of America has become the undisputed leader in the global market of the military-industrial complex (MIC). The author analyzed the dynamics of us spending in the late 1990s and early 2000s and showed in tables the increase in the gap in spending on the US military-industrial complex and the rest of the world. The article says that some of the civilian R &amp; D is funded from private sources, because large companies have sufficient budgets to finance R &amp; D. In general, the differences between civilian and military production lines have decreased – there is a trend of dual use of products. The author emphasizes that due to the increase in the share of civilian R &amp; D, military R &amp; D has undergone major structural changes in most countries. The study tracks changes in customer priorities in the military-industrial sector, the emergence of new, relevant products and services. The article examines the current trend of involving civilian producers in the development of Defense and security policies, cooperation with defense institutions and non-governmental organizations. The dynamism of scientific and technological progress requires monitoring the competitive positions of national producers in the military-industrial complex sector. The article also analyzes promising areas and key future trends in the development of the global military-industrial complex market.

Transformation of the US military-industrial complex in the 1990s Reflections on the book M.V. Alexandrov «The experience of reforming the US defense industry after the Cold War»

Transformation of the US military-industrial complex in the 1990s Reflections on the book M.V. Alexandrov «The experience of reforming the US defense industry after the Cold War»

Impact of space technology on us deterrence strategy

The article is devoted to one the most important sphere of modern American deterrence strategy — space environment. The paper presents the basic principles of US space strategy, as well as the country's main opponents in this area. Special attention is paid to the influence of space technology on the American deterrence strategy. Practical tools for implementing a containment strategy using space means are studied in detail. The author tries to forecast further ways of the development of the US military-industrial complex in the field of space and their impact on the international security system at the global and regional stage.

Power Struggle between China and the United States: Lessons of History

Fernand Braudel, the economic historian, gave a key for reading the power struggles occurring today between the United States and China. «Just as a country at the center of a world-economy can hardly be expected to give up its privileges at international level, how can one hope that the dominant groups who combine capital and state power, and who are assured of international support, will agree to play the game and hand over to someone else?» In other words, the ruling circles in the United States, the hegemonic power of today, want to keep their leadership, China, the rising and challenging power, would like to replace the USA as the hegemonic country: the trade war starting in 2018 should be analysed in this context . The paper will deal with the recent developments of this hegemonic struggle: within the American establishment, the Pentagon and the US Department of Commerce have regained control over «Wall Street» which has resulted in an updated version of the US military-industrial complex, with China replacing the USSR in a new "cold war". Complex strategies are developped on both sides, involving manufacturing, technology, trade, financial, diplomatic and military issues. Referring to this geo-economic key for reading, a number of actions taken by the US government since 2018 aims in particular at checking China’s mounting economic and financial power. For the United States, it is about challenging the development of China’s influence in the world, in particular along the new maritime Silk Roads.

ОБЗОРНЫЙ АНАЛИЗ ФИНАНСОВО-ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКОЙ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ КОМПАНИИ HUNTINGTON INGALLS INDUSTRIES

The paper covers operations features of Huntington Ingalls Industries, one of the leading contractors of the US Department of Defense (DoD), in terms of financial performance and business outlook. In general, taking into account the increase in the DoD budget and the increase in appropriations for the procurement of military equipment and weapon systems, as well as R&amp;D, we can say that this had a positive impact on companies of the US military-industrial complex as a whole (both larger and smaller) and led to improved financial performance and level of investment attractiveness. At the same time, it is quite obvious that the high growth rates of the DoD budget cannot be maintained for a while, which in the long run presents significant risks for the companies, as it can lead to a decrease in funding and the volumes of government contracts. Since there are a significant number of studies and publications for large companies in the sector, the author puts emphasis on smaller companies, the number of papers on which is small, but analysis on which is important because of their role and functions in the US military-industrial complex. These include Huntington Ingalls Industries, which specializes in the implementation of the US Navy's shipbuilding program. The analysis showed that the dynamics of its financial and economic operations, in general, can be characterized positively, despite the observed moderate decrease in values of some financial ratios. The outlook for its business in the long run can be assessed as sustainable, but for the period after 2025, attention should be paid to a number of risks that are primarily associated with a reduction of the US Navy shipbuilding program.

USSR "Nuclear Project": Some Manager Aspects

The main goal of the article was to study the organizational structure, principles of the control system and motivation of groups of creators of nuclear weapons in the USSR in the 40-50-s of the twentieth century. The article shows the political situation that preceded the period of creating nuclear weapons in the USSR, the system of organizing R&amp;D of the US military-industrial complex in the 40s and 70s, the retaliatory steps taken by the USSR leadership to create nuclear weapons of the defense triad, the organizational structure for creating nuclear weapons in the USSR in 40-50-s of the XX century. The weapons production management system created at that time subsequently demonstrated outstanding results in other projects. It is concluded that the success of the “atomic project” was possible, including due to the principles that make up the so-called “Russian management system”, which the organizers and executors of the project, individually and collectively, perceived as their own. The main principles of the management system that emerged during the implementation of the project: a high level of national-state ambitions; mobilization and redistribution of resources in key areas; the creation of centralized control, and, if necessary, control and repressive structures; creation of parallel management structures; autonomy of grassroots units; widespread use of third-party administrative, intellectual and technological resources.

TheChaeboland the US Military—Industrial Complex: Cold War Geopolitical Economy and South Korean Industrialization

Among scholars of East Asia, the role of US military offshore procurement (OSP) and the military–industrial complex (MIC) has been underplayed in explanations of rapid industrial transformation. Yet the foundations of industrialization in places such as South Korea, when analyzed in strongly ‘national–territorial’ and state-centric terms of the predominant, so-called ‘neo-Weberian’ accounts, remain inadequately illuminated. We argue that a geopolitical economy approach focusing on the roles of OSP and relations within the US MIC brings to light crucial sociospatial dimensions of the Korean developmental state's industrial success during the Vietnam War era, dimensions that are largely absent from the neo-Weberian accounts. We examine, in particular, the Park Chung Hee regime's participation in the Vietnam War, and the attendant development of Korean industrial chaebol such as Hyundai, arguing that the successes of the south Korean developmental state and chaebol were enabled by their enrolment in the US MIC, via OSP.

Refugee Memories and Asian American Critique

This article considers the challenges facing Southeast Asian American studies and the interventions the nascent field can make, particularly into Asian American studies, Southeast Asian studies, and American studies. Nguyen argues for dislodging the implicit identity politics and nationalism of these three fields, recognizing the importance of foregrounding war as a framework for linking Southeast Asian American experiences to a fundamental activity of the US military-industrial complex, and working through the challenges thus raised for these disciplines and their traditional modes and objects of inquiry.

“Providing for the Common Defense?” The Outsourcing of America's National Security through the Commercial Sale of Arms and Arms Production

How can a democracy and the tenets of democratic society be preserved and protected amid the contemporary security challenges that pose a threat to democracy and its tenets? As democracies fashion their new security strategies to deal with these new threats, what are the chances that some of these cures might pose more harm than good? This paper describes what has emerged over the past decade as perhaps the greatest unintended consequence facing the United States and global security: the globalization of the conventional arms market and the commercialization and “foreignization” of the US military-industrial complex. President Eisenhower's 1961 warning has come home to roost in the early 2000s, now representing an “outsourcing of national security” at risk of escalating as much as deflating the security challenges facing American democracy today.

Welcome to the Desert of Real Imagination

In response to the violence of the international system, “realist” approaches are flourishing. In the aftermath of “9/11”, gulf war No. 3, the challenge to the achievements of international law and the unchallengeable dominance of the US military-industrial complex, this is particularly noticeable. Theories which affirm an anarchical world without any international regulation, in which only the application of military power guarantees freedom and security are gaining credibility. This everyday understanding is also employed in Robert Kagan's essay. While “the Americans” exercise power in an anarchical international system, “the Europeans” aim for a post-historical paradise of peace and relative prosperity. The fuss about Kagan's essay can hardly be explained by a rich analysis of the current international situation, for it does not supply this. It is even more surprising that the superficial pattern of interpretation considers that the essay expresses a “fundamental truth of the international system,” which is only articulated once in ten years. But we want to argue that it is not about “truth,” but about the production and propagation of a hegemonic discourse. Accordingly Kagan must be perceived as what he is: the co-founder of the reactionary think tank “Project for a New American Century”; an intellectual belonging to the neo-conservative leadership structure, a group that pressed the ideological case for the war against Iraq.

Uncle Sam goes to Siliwood: of landscapes, Spielberg and hegemony

This article explores the impact of Hollywood's increasingly prominent role in the financing and development of digital technology on the resurgence and restructuring of American hegemony. It argues that the true relevance of the alliance between Hollywood and the US militaryindustrial complex, and of the overall technological convergence among sectors as disparate as film, broadcasting, software and telecommunications, cannot be grasped without looking at the broader context of 'privatization of authority' and consolidation of merchant power in the world economy. The emergence of Siliwood - the hybrid sector that weds Hollywood and Silicon Valley - shifts debates about US economic and military dominance onto the issues of culture, play and entertainment, and continues to obscure - both discursively and spatially - the distinctions between public and private, politics and economics, work and leisure that have long been regarded as the precondition of bourgeois hegemony. By blurring these boundaries, allowing for the emergence of new hegemonic blocs, and constructing new spatial 'comfort zones', the American entertainment industry has successfully managed to reinvigorate and reinscribe US hegemony at the end of this very American century.