7 INTRODUCTION
  Chapter One
  THE MIC AND THE STATE
19 In Washington’s “Corridors of Power”
36 The Pentagon’s Five Aspects
48 Congressional “Advice and Consent”
  Chapter Two
  THE MIC AND THE ECONOMY
56 The Pentagon and the Monopolies
75 Militarist Technocrats
83 The Periphery of the Complex
  Chapter Three
  THE IDEOLOGY OF FORCE
89 Cold War Dogmas
101 The Pentagon’s Propaganda Machine
113 “Ossified Instrument”
  Chapter Four
  THE MIC AND FOREIGN POLICY
124 Illusions of Empire
146 Collapse of the Messianic Conception
159 Militarism Adapts Itself
178 CONCLUSION
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