Military-Industrial Complex
The term military industrial complex was first used publicly in the Union of Democratic Control formed by United Kingdom's Sir Charles Trevalyan in the year 1914. In their pacifist manifesto, point four stipulates that “National armaments should be limited by mutual agreement, and the pressures of the military-industrial complex regulated by the nationalisation of armaments firms and control over the arms trade.”
It was made more famous when it was used by former U.S. president, Dwight Eisenhower, when he used it in his farewell address to the nation. In this address, Eisenhower indicated the important role of the U.S. congress plays in the propagation of the military industry. Because of that national address, the term has mostly been associated to the United States. In broad terms, the term also includes reference to the whole network of contracts and cash flows and resources among individuals and extends to several insitutions, most notably those of defense contractors, the Pentagon, Congress and the Executive branch.
A military industrial complex is basically comprises a country's armed forces, weapon suppliers, military systems, supplies and services and civil government-- which of course, stretches across all parts of the nation. It doesn't resemble the usual industrial complexes in terms of physical location, though it does resemble the concept of having resources, processes and authorities all connected within one land.