The MIC does not exist in any official sense. It is merely a term to describe a relationship very hard to get away from. It is the combination of elected officials who are lobbied for contracts to bring money to their districts or states.
Which create jobs in R & D, education, manufacturing, and every other field supporting those activities. People love all those jobs, they think they are so intelligent making all these things. But wise, no. The more accurate, original term was MICC. Congressional was dropped to not insult the voters, after all they elected Congress.
It stood for Military Industrial Congressional Complex. People want jobs, and will rationalize their employment by almost anything to see it as a good thing for the country.
The corporations employed have supplied of most of the technical innovations in our consumer culture. Almost all technical innovations are in some ways tied to warfare or defense, or space exploration, and applied to civilian life afterward. Some things are necessities, some not.
More complicated explanations use philosophies, ideologies, politics, economic ideas, even religion to make them seem like a good thing. Media has been commericalized for selling a product. With more privatization, it manufactures crisises where there are none, to sell a solution, which was not devised after the problem got publicity.
No, it was a product that laid on the shelf or in R&D and didn't have funding. Panic the public or now increasingly, make the appearance of 'news' that the public wants something done, and politicians will act on the alleged crisis.
Go about the land and really ask people what they want, and it won't look anything like what media is paid to say they do. That's how things get out of hand.
So the MIC does not have a boss or a lord in government or even corporations it is larger than all of them. We are the boss, but are persuaded by high salaries from all these things. And until the American people think more of freedom, peace, healthcare, justice, the poor and the environment, we'll elect those who do this for us.
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