The first time the term Military-Industrial Complex was publicly uttered was in President Dwight D. Eisenhower's farewell speech at which time he warned the American public to beware the insidious influence and creeping hold the military, defense research-technology, corporate and governmental hydra had on the nation. Forty years on, it is surely fitting to look afresh at Eisenhower's warning, and to appraise the present and future of the military-industrial complex. The American people have heeded Eisenhower's warning, but MIC has become part of American society. All they can do is live up with it.