Eisenhower warns about more than just the risk posed by the military industrial complex...he warns about the influence upon the free and independent university by government, he warns about the power of money in research and its influence over the nation's scholars, .he warns about the prospect of pubic policy becoming captive to a technological scientific elite... he warns about the impulse of government to live for today while plundering for "our own ease and convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow"...

the factions which manipulate those of Eisenhower's worries, along with the military industrial complex  are part of the deep state that Eisenhower was warning Americans to be vigilant against, because their best interests and the best interests of Americans were not to be assumed, aligned... ...you notice how he never once says...America should be glad to have it as Mr Martin does here with his re-definition of the term as an intellectually-based bulwark against despotism