premise: we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex"--Dwight David Eisenhower
hypothesis: military-industrial complex is best characterized as a kind or type of lenin (or Nikolai Lenin, Vladimir Ilich Lenin), defined as 'Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924)' .