Presented at International Society for Systems Sciences, ISSS 2025 PDF Presentation There is a line in Orwell’s 1984: “The war is not meant to be won, the war is meant to be continuous.” We see a major difference between classical territorial conflicts and modern warfare with the predominance of the military-industrial complex (MIC), or using Ray McGovern’s term MICIMATT (Military Industrial Congressional, Intelligence, Media, Academic, Think Tank). The MIC has overtaken its purpose of ensuring industrial readiness for war materiel and has become a goal-seeking system. We can observe the functional purpose for continuous and escalating wars in the US has been to generate capital for the investors of the MIC, in the largest public-private partnership on earth. To recognize the additionally reinforcement of the business model involving Wall Street as a flywheel to the MIC, we should add “Investors” to the term now, making this “MICIMMAT-IC.” We face moral …
