How to Use military-industrial complex in a Sentence

military-industrial complex

noun

• The 20-year conflict was a boon to the military-industrial complex, at the cost of untold lives.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 21 Aug. 2021
• King said that right-wing forces, the military-industrial complex and white racial backlash would challenge any progress made.
  — Jerry Large, The Seattle Times, 14 Jan. 2018
• Was that an oblique swipe at the military-industrial complex that has made this country into a harbinger of death in the endless wars all over the globe in which it is embroiled?
  — Jay Willis, GQ, 24 May 2018
• The military-industrial complex is not insurmountable, but real, so the contest cannot be won simply on the strength of ideas.
  — Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2020
• Don’t expect his team to be taking on the military-industrial complex or taking up calls to slash funding for the Pentagon.
  — Michelle Cottle, Star Tribune, 28 July 2020
• Defeat in Vietnam rattled the military-industrial complex that once had funded the space race.
  — Kim Phillips-Fein, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2019
• Under his banner, Anduril is a venture capital-backed start-up that has proudly joined the ranks of the military-industrial complex.
  — Sam Deanstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2019
• Just so; Alex was a tortured idealist who turned down a fellowship that seemed to be tied to the military-industrial complex, and as a result he got drafted and had a wayward life of odd jobs, all beneath him.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 7 Apr. 2021
• To keep a close eye on the military-industrial complex, subscribe to the daily contract announcements issued by the Pentagon.
  — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 9 Oct. 2019
• Unimaginable violence unleashed by the military-industrial complex in one of the poorest countries in the world.
  — Ashfaq Taufique, al, 10 Sep. 2021
• Within fifteen years, even the former supreme commander of the Allied forces was warning against the military-industrial complex.
  — Christopher Beha, Harper's magazine, 10 May 2019
• The son of Mikhail Fradkov, a former prime minister and intelligence service chief, heads a private bank which is the staple of the military-industrial complex.
  — The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
• The growth of the military-industrial complex against which Eisenhower warned seems to have promoted the use of militaristic prototypes to solve all kinds of domestic ills.
  — Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2021
• Despite such infractions, the wheels of the military-industrial complex continue to turn.
  — Lovely Umayam, The New Republic, 31 May 2018
• As many have pointed out in recent days, the war in Afghanistan has been a colossal boom time for the military-industrial complex, mostly at the expense of the military operation’s ostensible goals.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 21 Aug. 2021
• How many humans are caught up as collateral damage in the military-industrial complex's march toward its goals?
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 14 Mar. 2022
• While the wealthy and powerful line their pockets with the profits from the military-industrial complex, everyday people are propelled into the bloodshed, seemingly fighting the elite’s war for them.
  — Ava Johnson, Teen Vogue, 27 Jan. 2020
• In all these moves, Mr. Gorbachev met fierce internal resistance from the military and the military-industrial complex.
  — David E. Hoffman, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2022
• The event is essentially fueled by defense contractors and mainstays of the military-industrial complex that pay big money for a table or a balcony box.
  — Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2019
• Their military-industrial complex appears to be humming in producing war materiel, and the Kremlin’s coffers have never been fuller.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 19 Feb. 2024
• In reality, the change flows in the other direction, as new recruits enter the warm embrace of the imperishable military-industrial complex, eager to learn its ways.
  — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 20 Jan. 2024
• Now there are anecdotal reports — eagerly amplified by the White House — of the Russian military-industrial complex running short of parts.
  — David E. Sanger, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2022
• Or the influence of the military-industrial complex and foreign lobbies in Washington?
  — Anatol Lieven, Time, 8 Nov. 2022
• Even the textile industry owed its rapid growth indirectly to the military-industrial complex.
  — Heather Souvaine Horn, The New Republic, 16 Apr. 2018
• Zelenskyy pledged to transform Ukraine’s military-industrial complex into one of the most advanced and turn Ukraine into a leading ‘green power’ economy.
  — Katya Soldak, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022
• Wang’s dismissal from the elite political body is the latest shakeup in China’s military-industrial complex.
  — Nectar Gan, CNN, 31 Jan. 2024
• Superheroes and villains are often tied to the military-industrial complex in some way, and the MCU has had massive success leaning into the militarization of these characters.
  — Oliver Sava, Vulture, 26 Mar. 2021
• Maybe this is stark commentary on collateral international damage caused by the American military-industrial complex and a way to ground the story of a woman hell-bent on revenge against the West?
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 30 May 2019
• Last Thursday, the State Department released a detailed report on the impact of sanctions and export controls strangling the Russian military-industrial complex.
  — David A. Andelman, CNN, 25 Oct. 2022
• Over the weekend, the Kremlin announced the appointment of a new defense minister — an economist, Andrei Belousov, who will be tasked with harnessing the power of Russia’s military-industrial complex to sustain the fight.
  — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024