| Military Industrial
Congressional Complex Flows of money and patronage within a closed-loop, stable system impervious to outside forces: |
Self-Licking |
Derived from the work of Chuck
Spinney, Chet Richards, Seymour
Melman, and others.

(This is only a basic outline. There are detailed diagrams within
each of these patronage systems: the military, industry, congress and elections,
schools, universities, churches, and the media.
For example, diagrams of the political economy of corporate and government media
have more elements than the MICC above.)
Google for the Pentagon being Unauditable
Read William Hartung's 1999 papers: http://www.fpif.org/papers/micr/introduction.html