3. Updating the Military Industrial Complex: The Evolution of the National Security Contracting Complex from the Cold War to the Forever War

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1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Introduction. The Military and the Market 1
4. 1. The Politics of US Military Privatizations, 1945–2000 11
5. 2. The World’s Biggest Landlord: How the Cold War Military Built Its Arsenal of Houses 31
6. 3. Updating the Military Industrial Complex: The Evolution of the National Security Contracting Complex from the Cold War to the Forever War 47
7. 4. “Make Up a Box to Send Me”: Consumer Culture and Camp Life in the American Civil War 67
8. 5. A Girl in Every Port? The US Military and Prostitution in the Twentieth Century 87
9. 6. Building the Bases of Empire: The US Army Corps of Engineers and Military Construction During the Early Cold War 105
10. 7. Militarized Circuits: Kang Ki Dong, the US Military, and the Rise of Global High Tech 120
11. 8. “Don’t Discuss Jobs Outside This Room”: Reconsidering Military Keynesianism in the 1970s 135
12. 9. Mediating the Economic Impacts of Service: Race and Veterans’ Welfare after the War in Vietnam 150
13. Conclusion 169
14. Notes 177
15. Contributors 237
16. Index 239
17. Acknowledgments 247