Quote Originally Posted by Watchman
The incumbent president around the time the Cold War got going in his retirement speech, that's who. His speechwriters actually nicked it from I think an obscure British theorist - I can check the names if you want to.
'This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence -- economic, political, even spiritual -- is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.'

Dwight Eisenhower, Farewell Address, January 17, 1961

The term originally inserted by speech writers Williams and Moos was 'military–industrial–congressional complex', but Eisenhower's science advisor thought that was too East Coast.

However, that stuff is all publicly accessible and easy to find. But who was the Brit?