"VI. For the corporation executives, the military metaphysic often coincides with their interest in a stable and planned flow of profit; it enables them to have their risks underwritten by public money; it enables them reasonably to expect that they can exploit for private profit, now and later, the risky research developments paid for by public money. It is, in brief, a mask of the subsidized capitalism from which they extract profit and upon which their power is based (The Causes of World War III, 1958, p. 87).