Kaufman,R. The War Profiteers. 1970
Kaufman, Richard F. The War Profiteers. New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company,
1970. 282 pages.
This book was written during the Vietnam war by Richard F. Kaufman,
then an assistant to Senator William Proxmire (Kaufman was last spotted at
the Woodrow Wilson Center). Here he soberly analyzes the military-industrial
complex that Eisenhower warned against, and in the end it becomes clear why
Vietnam went on for as long as it did -- it was in the financial interest
of powerful people to keep it going. By the last chapter one is convinced
that neither Congress nor the President has the power needed to curtail
military spending in a meaningful manner, even assuming that they wanted to.
The contracting and procurement system, nominally designed to protect
the public interest, has been utterly corrupted. Pentagon officers cannot
wait for early retirement, at which point they get hired by defense firms.
In 1969, over two thousand retired officers were employed by the top 100
contractors -- triple the number when Eisenhower made his farewell speech.
The laws against conflicts of interest are toothless, and there is enough
money at stake to make sure they stay that way. Cost overruns, along
with zero accountability for weapons that don't work, are built into the
system with a wink and a nod, if not in writing. If Vietnam had not been
conveniently available to prime the procurement pump, it's probable that
some other war would have been invented to take its place.
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