When Eisenhower WARNED America About the Military-Industrial Complex!

He Warned Us on His Way Out the Door — Eisenhower's Farewell Address, 1961 In his final address as president, Dwight D. Eisenhower — a five-star general who'd led the Allied invasion of Europe — warned the country about something few expected: the growing power of its own military-industrial complex. It was dismissed as an odd note to end on. Decades of defense spending, endless wars, and defense-contractor influence later, it reads less like a farewell and more like a prophecy.