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The National Security State—World War II's Permanent Legacy

  • Writer: Jeff Kellick
    Jeff Kellick
  • Feb 28
  • 1 min read

Empire of Liberty: America's Foreign Entanglements from the Founders to the Forever Wars - Ep. 08



This episode examines the institutional transformation that followed World War II—the construction of permanent agencies, alliances, and war footing that replaced the founders’ constitutional design. We trace the Truman Doctrine’s unlimited commitment, the National Security Act of 1947 that created the CIA and NSC, NATO’s entangling alliance, the Korean War’s constitutional precedent, NSC-68’s blueprint for permanent militarization, and Eisenhower’s warning about the military-industrial complex he himself had built.

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