Chris Wallace is a professor of political history at the University of Canberra and author of the new book "Political Lives: Australian prime ministers and their biographers."
When former general Dwight D. Eisenhower was wrapping up his final term as U.S. president in 1961, he warned Americans to guard against the influence of the "military-industrial complex."
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