Meaning of warfare state | Babel Free

Definitions

1. the military-industrial complex, the political and economic powers that profit from military spending
2. a state or system with high military spending, especially when it uses external conflict to increase internal stability

Examples

“That formulation, in turn, will help to overcome part of the ideological support system of the warfare state.”

“The concept of the warfare state is often used as a convenient shorthand to denote that part of the institutional architecture of the state that is devoted to the management of the armed forces, military strategy and procurement, and defence industrial policy. [...] In the United States in particular, it has been customary for the activities of the warfare state to be discussed in terms of the notion of the ‘military-industrial complex (MIC)’ [...].”

“In beleaguered war-time Britain, planning for social life after the conflict combined with intense feelings of democratic solidarity to spur a self-conscious sense of national pride in “the welfare state” as opposed to the Nazi “warfare state”.”

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