In 2021 a large number of publications appeared intent on analyzing the scope of the so-called Military Industrial Complex, none of which offered a critical analysis. We go further in this article, explaining the configurations of the Iron Triangle: The first step is to express militarism in its contemporary form. The three configurations are: 1. military keynesianism, 2. global-neoliberal militarism, 3 . the completely instrumentalist always present configuration—Corporate Militarism. We explore a variety of related themes, above all those current policies designed to restructure U.S. seapower as the U.S. spearhead in its rivalry with China. We examine the recent and past steps that have given form to an industrial policy to create and drive-forward to the technological frontiers those corporations that comprise what is known as the Defense Industrial Base, as used to maintain U.S. industrial power.