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And, he added, “once you open up the area of spending for defense, it’s limitless. You can say we have enough offense, but you can never spend enough for defense —the need is always there.”
As a congressman representing Minnesota’s fourth district from 1949 to 1958, and a senator from 1958 until his retirement in 1970, Sen. McCarthy watched what Dwight Eisenhower called “the military-industrial complex” take root across the country.
Up until the 1950s, he explained, each branch of the military produced its own equipment. Although civilian factories were converted to military use during wartime, there was not widespread civilian production of weapons. It wasn’t until the Korean conflict that the military began contracting with private corporations to produce weapons.
As more private corporations were brought into the procurement process, the process itself became more complicated. Each company had its own champions, and the military, looking always toward selfpreservation, assured that the production of military hardware was spread across the country, “so you have a whole base of political support for almost every weapon system. It may be obsolete, or it may be no good, but it’s employment” in many congressional districts nationwide.
That, he added, translated into support for the systems from the congressmen and senators whose constituents would be affected by a decision to scrap any particular system.
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