British Empire’s Sun Hasn’t Set On Indian Officers’ Clubs — Centre Of Civil-Military Tussle

Writing in the 1950s, Wright Mills included the military brass in America’s power elite, along with the political and business elite, referring to them as ‘warlords’. He saw the US victory in the Second World War as being responsible for the elevated social status of military leaders and their influence on politics and government. After all, the American public had voted a war-time general to the nation’s presidency in 1953 when General Dwight Eisenhower became the 34th president. Mills also worried about the excessive influence of military men on diplomacy and international relations, giving a military edge to post-War US foreign policy. He was nervous about retired generals joining company boards and creating a link between the military brass and corporate interests, a concern that gained in importance with the growth of a large defence manufacturing industry in the private sector. Read More…