TY - RPRT
KW - Bulgaria
KW - defense acquisition
KW - defense economics
KW - defense industrial policy
KW - Defense policy
KW - defense politics
KW - defense procurement policy
KW - military-industrial complex
KW - public-private partnership
KW - small state
AU - Georgi Tsvetkov
AB - 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.
BT - CSDM Views
DA - November 2015
DO - https://doi.org/10.11610/views.0033
LA - eng
M1 - 33
N2 - 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.
PY - 2015
T2 - CSDM Views
TI - Military-Industrial Complex: How to profit from the National Security
ER -