The term military-industrial complex is usually attributed to former
President Eisenhower who coined the pharse in his Farewell Address to
the Nation on January 17, 1961. I added education to this here because
most scientists end up working in either education or the
military-industrial complex. Thus, the way education and the
military-industry complex are intertwined is an interesting issue from
an epistemological perspective. From a political perspective, the
complex could indeed be widened to a
legislature-judiciary-education-military-industrial complex. That would
of course raise even more protests that discussions here were too
political, so it's better to start with brining up the link between
education and the military-industrial complex. Furthermore, reform is
most urgently needed in the military. Once competition is established
successfully in the military, the rest will follow.

I did NOT propose for the US to tender out its defence. I did NOT
propose for people to select any winner of such tendering process by
vote. I DO propose a plit-up of the military, resulting in structurally
separate corporations to offer security services, competing for
customers in all areas. Initially, government will be the main customer
of these corporations. Government should spread out its need for
security services over a wide range of corporations, to ensure the
viability of this plurality of service providers. Progressively, tax
deductions and vouchers will enable more direct provision of security
services by such corporations to a variety of customers. Government as
a customer will thus gradually decrease in importance, as other
customers (including companies, non-profit organizations, families and
individuals) proportionally take an ever-larger share of the market in
security services.

Sam