Mr. Turse is making mountains out of molehills. The "industry" that Eisenhower was referring to were corporations that derive a meaningful percentage of their sales and revenues from military contracts. Today, that means outfits like Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Newport News, etc. To put things into perspective, PeisiCo and IBM had revenues of 33 and 91 billion in 2006. Thus the "huge" numbers he reported represent, respectively, 0.8 and 0.3 percent of their revenues. While these companies may welcome this minor amount of business, they' know supporting increases in defense budgets will require increased taxes as well. The fact is, the military does not produce or manufacture anything, not gasoline, not computers, not food, not clothing. The defense budget, excluding personnel costs, thus must flow throughto private contractors and organizations. There likely is very little that Mr. Turse uses and consumes in services and goods in daily living that does not go to companies that may directly or indirectly also derive revenue from defense spending. He should find a more convincing strawman to beat up on.