Guest Lecture—A. J. Murphy, Pentagon Capitalism: How the Cold War US Military Modeled Itself on Private Business

Please join the USC Society of Fellows in the Humanities and the Van Hunnick History Department for a guest lecture by A.J. Murphy on their new book, Pentagon Capitalism: How the Cold War US Military Modeled Itself on Private Business (Harvard University Press, 2026). More details to follow. ABSTRACT: In the wake of World War II, leaders in the U.S. defense bureaucracy routinely looked to private industry for assistance in running the emerging national security state. Over the decades that followed, officers were sent to study at business schools, clerical workers were subjected to time and m…