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An Overview of the Military-Industrial-Media Complex

Introduction The military-industrial-media complex (MIMC) is an offshoot of the military-industrial complex. Organisations like Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting have accused the military industrial media complex of using their media resources to promote militarism, which, according to Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting’s hypothesis, benefits the defence resources of the company and allows for a controlled… Read More

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An Overview of the Military-Digital Complex

Introduction The military-digital complex (MDC) is the militarisation of cyber operations by governments and corporations, often through monetary relationships between computer programmers in private companies and the military to combat the threat of cyber terrorism and warfare. Cyber operations since 2000 have increased dramatically, with the recent branch of the US Strategic Command the United… Read More

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An Overview of the Military-Industrial Complex

Introduction The expression military-industrial complex (MIC) describes the relationship between a country’s military and the defence industry that supplies it, seen together as a vested interest which influences public policy. A driving factor behind the relationship between the military and the defence-minded corporations is that both sides benefit – one side from obtaining war weapons,… Read More

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What is the Clinger-Cohen Act 1996?

Introduction The Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996 encompasses two laws that were together passed as part of the National Defence Authorisation Act for Fiscal Year 1996 (NDA) (S. 1124; Pub. L. 104–106 (text) (PDF)): This page is based on the copyrighted Wikipedia article < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinger%E2%80%93Cohen_Act >; it is used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA). You may redistribute it, verbatim or… Read More

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What is the McCarran Internal Security Act (1950)?

Introduction The Internal Security Act of 1950, 64 Stat. 987 (Public Law 81-831), also known as the Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950, the McCarran Act after its principal sponsor Senator Pat McCarran (D-Nevada), or the Concentration Camp Law, is a United States federal law. Congress enacted it over President Harry Truman’s veto. It required… Read More