Strategic Raw Materials: Nickel Imperialism
UnpublishedJanuary
1971
Volume:
4
Number:
9
Article
M. Klare
In the introduction to the series of documents and tables on the U.S.
W. Carter & Fred Goff
INTRODUCTION One of the central points to the discussion of imperialism has always been the question of raw materials -- more specifically, the dependency of the industrialized nations on Third World raw materials. Lost recently, Harry Magdoff, one of the editors of Monthly Review, attempted to clarify the issue by showing how imperialism is not so much a question of the industrialized countries' dependency on raw mater- ials -- though the dependency is great -- as it is of the need of monopolistic business organizations to control production sources, prices and markets on a glob, The concentration of economic power in a limited number of giant firms became possible in many industries precisely because of the control by the firms over raw materials sources.
Michael Klare
The Kennedy Administration's initial optimism regarding the ability of the United States to tri- umph on an insurgent battlefield was based on the conviction that American scientific and technologi- cal "knowhow" would overcome every advantage nor- mally accorded the guerrilla. As the first step in his effort to establish an effective counter- insurgency capability within the Armed Forces, Secretary of Defense Robert S.