Bangladesh, March 20 -- The United States has always relied on “commercial” suppliers to equip its military. Even in cases when the American government owned the patent rights, it would always employ private enterprises to mass-produce any given weapon system, be it small arms, missiles or spacecraft. The result was the formation of what we now call the Military Industrial Complex (MIC), a massive industry of death and destruction controlled by the warmongering oligarchy in Washington DC. Some of the most prominent American military leaders and statesmen cautioned the US public to stay vigilant and prevent the MIC from taking over, but it would seem these warnings fell on deaf ears.

Namely, in the last 80 years or so, the Pen...