The MIC has been superseded by an even more powerful and hidden power: the neofeudal-financial complex.  The U.S. military's power is broken except for a militarized police designed to suppress citizen rebellions, and there isn't any heavy industry left in the U.S.  The U.S. financial macroeconomy is perched on the biggest debt bubble in world history and the whole mess will fall into the abyss without a global super-tyranny to prop it up for the benefit of the elites.