The U.S. military/industrial complex takes a hit...

I don't usually agree with Vlad The Lad, but on this one, I think he may be right.

The U.S. economy and the octopus that is Lockheed Martin, with its tentacles in a dozen or so government departments, and both senators and congressmen in its pockets, would probably fall flat on its ass without that thirty percent or so of the economy being driven by militarily-oriented production. If World Peace broke out tomorrow, the 'Great Depression' of the 1930s would look like a Sunday afternoon picnic in the park compared to what would happen next in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.