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For if this country—or any other of the great powers—were to make its defense program a function of its domestic employment situation, it would become impossible to conduct a constructive and well-thought out foreign policy or to develop any lasting collaboration.

— Peter Drucker Concept of the Corporation (1945)

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p. 271. Note: compare Dwight Eisenhower's January, 1961 Farewell Speech

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