<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>27</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Georgi Tsvetkov</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Military-Industrial Complex: How to profit from the National Security</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">CSDM Views</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bulgaria</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">defense acquisition</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">defense economics</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">defense industrial policy</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">defense policy</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">defense politics</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">defense procurement policy</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">military-industrial complex</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">public-private partnership</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">small state</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2015</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">November 2015</style></date></pub-dates></dates><number><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">33</style></number><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The meaning of “Military-industrial complex” in the former “Eastern bloc” European countries is different from that of the famous farewell speech of the US President D.D. Eisenhower . The VPK (Military-industrial complex) consists of the state owned military industry during the Soviet era. Few of these enterprises survived the end of the Cold war, especially those in the new NATO and EU member states. Almost all “successful stories” are about private or joint public private companies.
Bulgaria should change its understanding of Military-industrial complex from this of the Soviet era VPK to that of Eisenhower speech. The idea is not to „avoid” the democratic institutions, but to establish mutually benefit relations between the Government (MoD) and the private business from the perspective of a small country with still developing heavy industry.
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