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Language: en
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-05-01 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 390
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-11-01 - Publisher: Penn State Press
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Pages: 240
Pages: 240
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-08-12 - Publisher: Routledge
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Pages: 328
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-09-16 - Publisher: University Press of Kansas
In his farewell speech, President Dwight Eisenhower famously warned us of the dangers of a military-industrial complex (MIC). In Paul Koistinen's sobering new b