Army Appropriations Act of 1916
In United States federal legislation, the Army Appropriations Act of 1916 authorized money for the larger troop strength, and created the Council of National Defense (CND) which established communications and information sharing between military and industrial leaders.[1][2]
The CND was a Cabinet committee with an Advisory Commission of prominent citizens working without pay. It was initially made up of 1)
Sears, Roebuck and Company, 6) Samuel Gompers, the President of the American Federation of Labor (AFL), and 7) Dr. Franklin H. Martin, the Secretary-General of the American College of Surgeons. It was the 1st peacetime collusion of military and industrial leaders, laying the initial groundwork for the modern U.S. military–industrial complex
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References
- ISBN 978-1-108-17121-2.
- ^ Glenn, Garrard (1918). The Army and the Law. Columbia University Press. p. 143.
