The Military-Industrial Complex - Bibliography

Ambrose, Stephen E. Eisenhower. New York, 1984.

Brendon, Piers. Ike: The Life and Times of Dwight D. Eisenhower. New York, 1986.

Bush, Vannevar. Modern Arms and Free Men: A Discussion of the Role of Science in Preserving Democracy. New York, 1949.

Campbell, Levin H., Jr. The Industry-Ordnance Team. New York and London, 1946.

Carey, Omer L., ed. The Military-Industrial Complex and United States Foreign Policy. Pullman, Wash., 1969.

Caves, Richard E. Multinational Enterprise and Economic Analysis. 2d ed. Cambridge and New York, 1996.

Chinn, George M. The Machine Gun. 5 vols. Washington, D.C., 1951–1987. A broad treatment of the development of automatic weapons.

Clark, Victor S. "Manufacturing During the Civil War." Military Historian and Economist 3 (April 1918).

Clarkson, Grosvenor B. Industrial America in the World War: The Strategy Behind the Line, 1917–1918. Boston, 1923.

Clayton, James L. The Economic Impact of the Cold War: Sources and Readings. New York, 1970.

Coates, James, and Michael Kilian. Heavy Losses: The Dangerous Decline of American Defense. New York, 1985.

Connery, Robert H. The Navy and Industrial Mobilization in World War II. Princeton, N.J., 1951.

Craven, Wesley Frank, and James Lea Cate. The Army Air Forces in World War II. Vol. 6, Men and Planes. Chicago, 1954. Well-balanced official history.

Crowell, Benedict, and Robert Forrest Wilson. How America Went to War. New Haven, Conn., 1921. Detailed coverage of industrial development during World War I.

Danhoff, Clarence H. Government Contracting and Technological Change. Washington, D.C., 1968.

Deitchman, Seymour J. Military Power and the Advance of Technology: General Purpose Military Forces for the 1980s and Beyond. Boulder, Colo., 1983.

Deyrup, Felicia Johnson. Arms Makers of the Connecticut Valley: A Regional Study of the Economic Development of the Small Arms Industry, 1798–1870. Northampton, Mass., 1948. A useful general survey of the early period.

Dickson, Thomas L., Jr. "Military-Industrial Complex." Military Review (December 1971): 29–35.

Doremus, Paul N., William W. Keller, Louis W. Pauley, and Simon Reich. The Myth of the Global Corporation. Princeton, N.J., 1998.

Duscha, Julius. Arms, Money and Politics. New York, 1965.

Eccles, Henry E. Military Power in a Free Society. Newport, R.I., 1979. By a former naval officer with a special interest in logistics.

Edwards, David V. Arms Control in International Politics. New York, 1969.

Fuller, Claud E. The Whitney Firearms. Huntington, W.Va., 1946.

Galbraith, John Kenneth. "How to Control the Military." Harper's (June 1969).

Greider, William. Fortress America: The American Military and the Consequences of Peace. New York, 1998.

Herzog, Arthur. The War-Peace Establishment. New York, 1965.

Huston, James A. The Sinews of War: Army Logistics, 1775–1953. Washington, D.C., 1966.

——. One for All: NATO Strategy and Logistics Through the Formative Period, 1949–1969. Newark, Del., and London, 1984.

——. Outposts and Allies: U.S. Army Logistics in the Cold War, 1945–1953. London, 1988.

——. Guns and Butter, Powder and Rice: U.S. Army Logistics in the Korean War. London, 1989.

——. Logistics of Liberty: American Services of Supply in the Revolutionary War and After. Newark, Del., 1991.

Kaufman, Richard F. The War Profiteers. Indianapolis, 1970.

Keegan, John. A History of Warfare. New York, 1993.

Kennedy, Paul. The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000. New York, 1987. An impressive study in which the author holds that the decline of great powers can usually be attributed to an overextension of military power.

Korstinen, Paul A. C. "The Industrial-Military Complex in Historical Perspective: The Inter-War Years." Journal of American History (March 1970): 819–839.

Lapp, Ralph Eugene. The Weapons Culture. New York, 1968. A critical study by a popular scientist.

Lens, Sidney. The Military-Industrial Complex. Philadelphia, 1970.

Melman, Seymour. Pentagon Capitalism: The Political Economy of War. New York, 1970.

——. The Permanent War Economy: American Capitalism in Decline. New York, 1974.

Millis, Walter. Arms and Men: A Study in American Military History. New York, 1956.

Mills, C. Wright. The Power Elite. London and New York, 1956.

Mirsky, Jeannette, and Allan Nevins. The World of Eli Whitney. New York, 1952. A study by two outstanding historians emphasizing Whitney's industrial development based on Whitney's papers.

Mytelka, Lynn Krieger. Strategic Partnerships: States, Firms and International Competition. Rutherford, N.J., 1991.

Olvey, Lee D., James R. Golden, and Robert C. Kelly. The Economics of National Security. Wayne, N.J., 1984.

Phillips, J. B. "Special Report: The Military-Industrial Complex." Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report (24 May 1968).

Proxmire, William. "The Pentagon vs. Free Enterprise." Saturday Review (31 January 1970). A critique by a critical senator from Wisconsin.

——. Report from Wasteland: America's Military-Industrial Complex. New York, 1970.

Smith, R. Elberton. The Army and Economic Mobilization. Washington, D.C., 1959.

Somers, Herman Miles. "Civil-Military Relations in Mutual Security." Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 288 (July 1953): 27–35.

Sutton, John L., and Geoffrey Kemp. "Arms to Developing Countries." Adelphi Papers 28 (October 1966).

Thayer, George. The War Business: The International Trade in Armaments. New York, 1969.

U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. World Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers 1967–1976. Washington, D.C., 1978.

U.S. Bureau of the Budget. The United States at War: Development and Administration of the War Program by the Federal Government. Washington, D.C., 1946.

U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Verification and Compliance. World Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers 1998. Washington, D.C., 2000.

Van Creveld, Martin. Technology and War: From 2000 B.C. to the Present. London and Washington, D.C., 1989.