I’ve never really thought of Dwight Eisenhower, the 34th president of the United States, as a prophet. The former general, politician and university president seemed more of a technocrat, a dry-as-dust sort of fellow fit for the 1950s, but not much more. He was Ozzie and Harriet’s president; not mine.
Shane Harris has me reassessing my view. His book “@War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex,” also inspired me to re-read Eisenhower’s farewell address from 1961, the speech which made famous the notion of a “military-industrial complex.”
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