Bibliography of the military–industrial complex

Adams, Gordon, The Iron Triangle: The Politics of Defense Contracting, 1981.^{[ISBN missing]}
Alic, John A. (2021). "The U.S. Politico–Military–Industrial Complex". Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.1870. ISBN 978-0-19-022863-7.
Andreas, Joel, Addicted to War: Why the U.S. Can't Kick Militarism, ISBN 1904859011.
Byrne, Edmund F. (2017). "Military Industrial Complex (MIC)". Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics. Springer International Publishing. pp. 1–5. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-23514-1_209-1. ISBN 978-3-319-23514-1.
Cochran, Thomas B., William M. Arkin, Robert S. Norris, Milton M. Hoenig, U.S. Nuclear Warhead Production Harper and Row, 1987, ISBN 0887301258
Cockburn, Andrew, "The Military–Industrial Virus: How bloated budgets gut our defenses", Harper's Magazine, vol. 338, no. 2029 (June 2019), pp. 61–67. "The military–industrial complex could be said to be concerned, exclusively, with self-preservation and expansion.... The defense budget is not propelled by foreign wars. The wars are a consequence of the quest for bigger budgets."
Cockburn, Andrew, "Why America Goes to War: Money drives the US military machine", The Nation, vol. 313, no. 6 (20–27 September 2021), pp. 24–27.
Friedman, George and Meredith, The Future of War: Power, Technology and American World Dominance in the 21st Century, Crown, 1996, ISBN 051770403X
Good, Aaron (2022). American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. New York: Skyhorse Publishing. ISBN 978-1510769137.
Hartung, William D.; Freeman, Ben (2025). The Trillion Dollar War Machine: How Runaway Military Spending Drives America into Foreign Wars and Bankrupts Us at Home. Bold Type Books. ISBN 978-1645030638.
Hooks, Gregory (2008). "Military–Industrial Complex, Organization and History". Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, & Conflict (2nd ed.). pp. 1278–1286. doi:10.1016/B978-012373985-8.00109-4. ISBN 978-0-12-373985-8.
Hossein-Zadeh, Ismael, The Political Economy of US Militarism. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2006.^{[ISBN missing]}
Keller, William W., Arm in Arm: The Political Economy of the Global Arms Trade. New York: Basic Books, 1995.^{[ISBN missing]}
Kelly, Brian, Adventures in Porkland: How Washington Wastes Your Money and Why They Won't Stop, Villard, 1992, ISBN 0679406565
Lassman, Thomas C. "Putting the Military Back into the History of the Military–Industrial Complex: The Management of Technological Innovation in the U.S. Army, 1945–1960", Isis (2015) 106#1 pp. 94–120 in JSTOR
Mathews, Jessica T., "America's Indefensible Defense Budget", The New York Review of Books, vol. LXVI, no. 12 (18 July 2019), pp. 23–24. "For many years, the United States has increasingly relied on military strength to achieve its foreign policy aims.... We are [...] allocating too large a portion of the federal budget to defense as compared to domestic needs [...] accumulating too much federal debt, and yet not acquiring a forward-looking, twenty-first-century military built around new cyber and space technologies." (p. 24.)
McDougall, Walter A., ...The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age, Basic Books, 1985, (Pulitzer Prize for History) ISBN 0801857481
Melman, Seymour, Pentagon Capitalism: The Political Economy of War, McGraw Hill, 1970^{[ISBN missing]}
Melman, Seymour, (ed.) The War Economy of the United States: Readings in Military Industry and Economy, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1971.
Mollenhoff, Clark R., The Pentagon: Politics, Profits and Plunder. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1967^{[ISBN missing]}
Patterson, Walter C., The Plutonium Business and the Spread of the Bomb, Sierra Club, 1984, ISBN 0871568373
Pasztor, Andy, When the Pentagon Was for Sale: Inside America's Biggest Defense Scandal, Scribner, 1995, ISBN 068419516X
Pierre, Andrew J., The Global Politics of Arms Sales. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1982.
Preble, Christoper (2008). "Military–Industrial Complex". In Hamowy, Ronald (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage; Cato Institute. pp. 328–329. ISBN 978-1412965804.
Roland, Alex (2021). Delta of Power: The Military–Industrial Complex. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 9781421441818.
Ritter, Daniel P.; McLauchlan, Gregory (2008). "Military–Industrial Complex, Contemporary Significance". Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, & Conflict (Second ed.). pp. 1266–1278. doi:10.1016/B978-012373985-8.00104-5. ISBN 978-0-12-373985-8.
Sampson, Anthony, The Arms Bazaar: From Lebanon to Lockheed. New York: Bantam Books, 1977.^{[ISBN missing]}
St. Clair, Jeffery, Grand Theft Pentagon: Tales of Corruption and Profiteering in the War on Terror. Common Courage Press, 2005.^{[ISBN missing]}
Sweetman, Bill, "In search of the Pentagon's billion dollar hidden budgets – how the US keeps its R&D spending under wraps", from Jane's International Defence Review, online
Thorpe, Rebecca U. The American Warfare State: The Domestic Politics of Military Spending. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014.^{[ISBN missing]}
Watry, David M., Diplomacy at the Brink, Eisenhower, Churchill, and Eden in the Cold War, Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 2014.^{[ISBN missing]}
Weinberger, Sharon, Imaginary Weapons, New York: Nation Books, 2006. ISBN 9781560258490.
Hartung, William D. "Eisenhower's Warning: The Military–Industrial Complex Forty Years Later." World Policy Journal 18, no. 1 (Spring 2001).
Johnson, Chalmers. The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic, New York: Metropolitan Books, 2004^{[ISBN missing]}
Kurth, James. "Military–Industrial Complex." In The Oxford Companion to American Military History, ed. John Whiteclay Chambers II, 440–442. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN 9780195071986
Mills, C. Wright. The Power Elite, New York, 1956 ISBN 0195133544
Nelson, Lars-Erik. "Military–Industrial Man." In New York Review of Books 47, no. 20 (December 21, 2000): 6.
Nieburg, H. L. In the Name of Science, Quadrangle Books, 1970 ^{[ISBN missing]}

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