• Madison420@lemmy.world
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    Last military leader with military experience and the only one since to earnestly speak out against the military industrial complex.

    He’s a legitimately interesting dude.

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      This prompted those groups to re-brand themselves into the tech sector based in a valley in California.

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        Jfk was al not a military leader in the military, he was a serviceman in a minor role. Eisenhower was a literal general and was in leadership roles from 1918 to 1945ish iirc. ≠ jfk had a military understanding whereas Eisenhower had military leadership experience which is why I phrased it the way I did.

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          Okay I see now what you meant. However, what you said was “last military leader with military experience”. JFK was commander in chief as the president (I.e., military leader) and was in the military (I.e., military experience).

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        Kennedy won a medalmof Honor for his service. George HW Bush was shot down in WWII.

        But neither were military leaders, which is what I think he was referring to. Ike was the commander of the largest military alliance in the history of the world prior to becoming President. When he spoke out against the MIC, he did it from a position of absolute understanding.

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      I don’t know a lot about him, and I’m fairly confident that I’d think he was an imperialist chud, but I rember his fairwell address being kinda based in a lot of ways:

      In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.