What You Should Know About the United States New Defense Secretary

[Chef Ramsay]

When President Dwight D. Eisenhower on January 17, 1961 delivered his farewell address and warned about the Military-Industrial Complex, he surely was thinking of men like Ashton Carter, the new Secretary of Defense.

Carter appears to move easily between the higher echelons of the military and the business world.

From October 2011 to December 2013, he served as the Department of Defense’s Chief Operating Officer overseeing more than $600 billion per year. During the Bush administration, he was a member of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's International Security Advisory Board; co-chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's Policy Advisory Group; a consultant to the Defense Science Board; a member of the National Missile Defense White Team; and a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on International Security and Arms Control.

When not working in a military capacity and doling out of billions, he has worked in the private sector for many of the firms that have benefited handsomely from the billions spent by the Defense Department.

He has served on the Boards of Directors of the MITRE Corporation, Mitretek Systems, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and as a member of the Draper Laboratory corporation.
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In addition to the board seats, Carter is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Aspen Strategy Group.
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The neocons are going to love him in his new DOD role, as will the entire military-industrial complex. In 2006, he authored a report advocating use or threat of force to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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[BitMos]

that he get free money from the banker with which money he can buy daughters of lower grunts (and with NSA help he can chose the ones he likes!!) ! I get the point?

edit: don't get me wrong, there is 0 conspiracy in what I write, it's scientific and called in the literature : moral hazard, only the aspect on reproduction and sexuality haven't been (deliberately) studied, anyway with digital tracking the big picture is more accurate... ECO101.

edit2 : it's just another episode in the true War on Terror.

[Chef Ramsay]

The point here is that he's a veteran of the military industrial complex/big business collusion that's been implementing foreign policy and reaping the financial benefits for a long time. He's also a political hack/stooge for that community so it's a big signal of business as usual. He's merely a figurehead tho.

[grendel25]

The point here is that he's a veteran of the military industrial complex/big business collusion that's been implementing foreign policy and reaping the financial benefits for a long time. He's also a political hack/stooge for that community so it's a big signal of business as usual. He's merely a figurehead tho.

I'm sure you already realized this as you posted it.. but that description fits just about everyone in the MIC.  Sure, everyone is doing their job and serving their nation... but it's always driven by the same narrow limitations of bureaucracy and office politics.