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Eisenhower's dire warning about US military-industrial complex comes to fruition: Analyst

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The US military-industrial complex wields enormous influence and has a tremendous propaganda machine, says American political analyst Rodney Martin, adding that everything that former US President Dwight D. Eisenhower has warned about it "has come to fruition."

Former Republican congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul has said that “the Pentagon’s lost trillions have nothing to do with defense, adding that the “money propping up the high lifestyles of those connected to the military-industrial complex.”

Dr. Paul, a three-time American presidential candidate and the founder of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, made the remarks in an article published by his website on Monday.

In an interview with Press TV on Wednesday, Martin said that Dr. “Paul is doing a great service by calling attention to the great fraud, abuse and outright financial corruption in the Pentagon and the military-industrial complex.”

“The military-industrial complex in the United States wields enormous influence and has a tremendous PR machine,” he stated.

“It is important to know that when President Eisenhower left office and President Eisenhower was a military titan, having been the supreme allied commander in Europe in WWII. When he left office as president he warned about the military-industrial complex that it would be morph into and develop into and that has happened. Everything that President Eisenhower has warned about has come to fruition,” the analyst noted.  

“Every time attention is called to this corrupt lot, what ends up happening is the PR machine of the military-industrial complex starts singing tune of jingoism,” he stated.

Deputy US Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan has recently acknowledged that the Pentagon has failed its first-ever comprehensive audit, saying, “We failed the audit, but we never expected to pass it.”

"It was an audit on a $2.7 trillion dollar organization, so the fact that we did the audit is substantial," Shanahan claimed.

The first-ever audit of the of the $2.7 trillion enterprise that is the Pentagon identified widespread problems in cybersecurity, but found little in the way of savings that could offset potential budget cuts next year, according to officials.

Pentagon's comptroller David Norquist, who has played a key role in the audit, said after the report release that although no glaring instances of fraud were detected in the US military establishment, its Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Special Operations and the Transportation Command all received failing grades.


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