![]() | Torpedo Subjects: Torpedoes -- United States -- Design and construction -- History -- 20th century; Torpedoes -- Great Britain -- Design and construction -- History -- 20th century; Weapons systems -- Technological innovation -- Case studies; United States. Navy -- Weapons; When President Eisenhower referred to the "military-industrial complex" in his 1961 Farewell Address, he summed up in a phrase the merger of government and industry that dominated the Cold War United States. In this bold reappraisal, Katherine Epstein uncovers the origins of the military-industrial complex in the decades preceding World War I, as the United States and Great Britain struggled to perfect a crucial new weapon: the self-propelled torpedo. Epstein Katherine C. : Katherine C. Epstein is Assistant Professor of History at Rutgers University-Camden. |
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