The military-industrial industry thrives on perpetual half-measure wars.
We wind up with unsettled conflicts all around the globe. They require perpetual spending, in the industrial-military complex.
Korea, Iraq. Mideast. Cold War. Turkey inside NATO. Weapons to nations which turn against our interests. Etc..
Like politicians, retired generals live like millionaires.
Six figure military pensions, plus six figure lobbyist jobs.
Trump threatens their paradigm. He is too unpredictable.
But the realiry is that to go third party is simply a vote for Hillary. Trump is it.
You make good points.
It was not until just recently that I began to understand the danger that President Eisenhower warned us of, in his farewell speech of 1961, when he told us to beware the “military-industrial complex”.