> the biggest U.S. arms companies employ ~700.000 people
Which is about one-half of Walmart's employee base, but the USA doesn't base its foreign policy on the whims of the Walton family.
What's more persuasive about the military-industrial-government complex is that most of its leaders emerged from the same universities and think-tanks. Essentially they share the same viewpoints and philosophies and can pull the appropriate levers in the domains that the control and they freely move from one domain to another.
Which is about one-half of Walmart's employee base, but the USA doesn't base its foreign policy on the whims of the Walton family.
What's more persuasive about the military-industrial-government complex is that most of its leaders emerged from the same universities and think-tanks. Essentially they share the same viewpoints and philosophies and can pull the appropriate levers in the domains that the control and they freely move from one domain to another.