Cold war Quote by Andrew Feinstein

“The Second World War signalled the creation of the military-industrial complex in Britain and elsewhere. This militarized economy, born out of an imperial system and expanding to vast proportions during the war, largely remained in place into the Cold War.” quote by Andrew Feinstein — Download Open image

““The Second World War signalled the creation of the military-industrial complex in Britain and elsewhere. This militarized economy, born out of an imperial system and expanding to vast proportions during the war, largely remained in place into the Cold War.””

Andrew Feinstein

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (8 ratings)

More by Andrew Feinstein

“Britain’s industry was kept buoyant by the decline of Empire, for as countries gained their independence they sought arms to enhance their status and…

Andrew Feinstein

Image

“vividly revealed the arms industry’s ‘constant tendency towards bribery, and the playing off of one country against another to sell arms’. It also exposed the extent to which arms salesmen were supported by their governments: ‘It makes one wonder,’ commented the Senator, ‘whether the army or the navy are just organisations of salesmen for private industry, paid for by the…

Andrew Feinstein

“Mertins frequently upset his handlers, often selling to countries that were considered, at the very least, anti-American. His relationship with US Intelligence ended in 1972 during the Vietnam War,”

Andrew Feinstein

“In August, Gehlen and a number of high-ranking colleagues were transported under Boker’s watch to Washington in the private plane of a US General and from there to the Pentagon. After initially being placed in solitary confinement,5 within a year, having impressed US Intelligence, who trained him intensively, Gehlen was returned to Germany to head a massive US-backed German spy-ring…

Andrew Feinstein

“To secure a contract, a company must secure the support not merely of a senior prince, often through an established agent through whom very…

Andrew Feinstein

Image

“Unwilling to borrow substantially from abroad, the Saudis’ profligate arms spending was under threat. Some of the equipment bought under the first phase of Al Yamamah was intended to be sold on to Iraq but the end of the Iran–Iraq War in 1988 left the Saudis without a buyer.”

Andrew Feinstein

“the biggest problem the Saudis had to contend with was the inadequacies of Airwork, the providers of the training and maintenance contracts. The company’s commitments proved beyond its resources. The Ministry of Defence was compelled to become more deeply involved. Ex-RAF pilots were recruited to fly the planes, becoming, in effect, sponsored mercenaries to the Saudis; and eventually the British…

Andrew Feinstein

“Merex produced police equipment – binoculars, bullet-proof jackets, radios and so on.”

Andrew Feinstein

Image

“Caught between two global forces, Gehlen and Wessel chose the West. Coming to this realization, Gehlen and his organization made plans. Large dossiers of German intelligence on Soviet activities, which included surveillance photos of Russian industrial complexes and detailed intelligence on the capacity of the Soviet air force, were consolidated and hidden, often in makeshift holes beneath the floorboards of…

Andrew Feinstein

“general amorality of the weapons business in their disdain for any kind of control over the arms trade, their dislike of attempts to promote…

Andrew Feinstein

Image

“Over time, the Saudis gave $32m to the Contras.86 The routing of this money was linked to the AWACS sale in that a fund was created from the sale, from which the Contras’ monthly money was diverted.87 Bandar would say later: ‘I didn’t give a damn about the Contras – I didn’t even know where Nicaragua was.’88 This support was…

Andrew Feinstein

“The arms trade – an intricate web of networks between the formal and shadow worlds, between government, commerce and criminality – often makes us…

Andrew Feinstein

Image

Explore all 53 Andrew Feinstein quotes

More Cold war quotes

“A clear look back on the Cold War's battlegrounds, along with a sense of relief that the world survived forty-five years of confrontation, evokes…

Anonymous

Image

We have Internet now and people are not stupid. But it seems that some people are trying to push the same agenda of the…

Bassem Youssef

Image

“The low point occurred in July, during Romney’s junior week abroad, in which the press became increasingly frustrated over Romney’s refusal to talk to them. It came to a head in Warsaw during a visit by Romney to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier there. As the former governor walked to his car, reporters shouted questions at him about his…

Mark Leibovich

We have won an armistice on a single battlefield, not peace in our world. We may not now relax our guard nor cease our…

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Image

We do not have the right to forget that reactionary imperialism exists and its forces actively operate in the world, that they encourage the…

Andrei Grechko

Image

If you don't like us, don't accept our invitations and don't invite us to come to see you. Whether you like it or not,…

Nikita Khrushchev

Image

Ever since the end of the Cold War, it has been our paramount interest in Europe to strengthen NATO and to extend it -…

Tom Malinowski

Image

“And so this is where the post Cold War has brought us: to the recognition that the very totalitarism that we fought against in…

Robert D. Kaplan

Image

And so the greatest of American triumphs... became a peculiarly joyless victory. We had won the Cold War, but there would be no parades.

Robert M. Gates

Image

Socialism would gather all power to the supreme party and party leaders, rising like stately pinnacles above their vast bureaucracies of civil servants no…

Winston Churchill