James Ledbetter

James Ledbetter is the editor in charge of Reuters.com, and author of Unwarranted Influence: Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Military Industrial Complex (Yale University Press, 2011).


Commentary

President Eisenhower's farewell speech was as much a paean to fiscal conservatism as any kind of attack on the "military-industrial complex."

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May 25, 2012