What Ike’s military industrial complex speech didn’t say
Eisenhower’s embrace of covert operations helped to seed the complete breakdown of Americans’ trust in its institutions today.
Eisenhower’s embrace of covert operations helped to seed the complete breakdown of Americans’ trust in its institutions today.
While he warned about the military industrial complex, he was less restrained when it came to covert interventions, some which reverberate today.
In new book, Ervand Abrahamian says fresh evidence shows the plot to overthrow Mossadegh was thick and a long time in the making.
Bet you didn’t know there was an authorization for the use of military force against international communism still on the books.