In 1941 the United States entered into World War II. In order to combat what was going on in Europe, America mobilized its industries to create weapons for the war. This took a huge effort. The mobilization worked and they were able to produce enough weapons that they could keep shipping them over there, and they produced more weapons than the Germans could destroy and therefore eventually won the war. But there was an interesting thing that happened after the war was won. America now had an industry that didn’t exist in the past. And it was an industry to produce weapons. It was a war industry. So, all of a sudden, you had an industry that needed wars to exist. And at that time all of a sudden there were no wars. Well, that was certainly solved quickly. The Korean conflict began shortly after. And then when Eisenhower became our president, he said, “Beware the military industrial complex.”
The point being that when you have an industry and a powerful industry, that industry, which is in business to produce what it produces, is going to go about doing what it has to do to keep producing what it makes. Because it now is no longer about winning a war, it’s about making money for the industry. So, all of a sudden, there is a change in motive. There is a change in the reason things are being done.
