How do the American Military, Industrial, Media and Academic elites collaborate for their vested interests and keep the United States engaged in endless wars?

 

Military-Industrial-Media-Academia complex

Simply MIMAC, is a concept that is used to explain the collaboration among Military, Industrial, Media, and Academic elites for protection of their own interest within the Unites States of America. These elites have common interest of producing, selling, and using weapons, invading and destroying weaker countries, and legitimizing 21st century imperialism. This heterogeneous group of elite is completely detached from the interests of common people and overall democratic edifice and it benefits from keeping United States engaged in wars globally.

            Military-Industrial complex means the collaboration between the military and defense industry for influencing foreign policy for their own vested interests. President Eisenhower in his farewell speech (1961) warned about extensive power of his mutual relationship, as one side benefits by obtaining weapons and other side benefits by supplying weapons using taxes of the American tax payers. Their extensive influence lead the United Stated to maintain it militarist and hawkish world view.

According to Stockholm International Peace Research Institute the combined global defense spending in 2019 was 1.9 trillion dollars and the share of the United State Was $732 bn. As a result, the United State keeps itself  engaged in global conflicts (global war on terrorism) which in turn benefits its Military-Industrial Complex and the transformed elite in the form of MIMAC.

            The United States did not dissolve North Atlantic Treaty Organization even after the dissolution of USSR and kept the EU and NATO’s expansion to the Eastern Europe leading the Russian Invasion. As a result, the European spending on defense has significantly increased. In the same, continued support of the United Sates to Israel can also be linked to MIMAC that benefits directly and indirectly from wars.