The “Iron Triangle”, also said to be Washington’s power arrangement, consists of a close relationship trifecta between the industry lobbying groups (private firms), congressional committees (the Senate and the House), and military institutions (the Pentagon, Joint Chief of Staffs). They are assumed to be the determinants and dominant thinkers of federal policymaking. The Iron Triangles usually outlast the four or eight years of a presidential administration. Presidents come and go, but the civil servants of the executive branch have careers spanning forty years and their relationships with members of Congress and interest groups are more permanent fixtures of national government than presidents’ relatively dilute careers. Accordingly, p
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