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The state of Israel located in Middle East owns one of the fastest growing Military-Industrial Complex (MIC) in the world. Geographically a small state, Israel that claims to be an official homeland for Jews on occupied territories of Palestine is highly ambitious to maintain militarily a mighty status in the Arab world. In order to empower its offensive policies against neighbouring states the initial Jewish leadership from Knesset decided to maintain formidable military power coupled with high growth of its MIC. The rapid growth of Tel Aviv's MIC enabled Jewish leaders to establish their commercial links with other states in strategic domain. The state of Israel, in this way, became one of the leading weapon manufacturers in the international system. Tel Aviv exports 75% of the weapon it produced and 28% of its weapons exports are missiles, drones, or missile defence systems. This Jewish country has maintained the weapons marketing and security protocols with over 130 states. Israel's MIC and it external relations with the international community while becoming one of the major sources of Tel Aviv's economy are playing a vital role in managing its foreign policy in the international system. Before analysing further the potential of Israel's MIC inherited in five main weapon manufacturing companies and their commercial connections across the globe, it is essential to understand the notion of MIC and its essence in world politics.
The MIC generally refers to the network of individuals and institutions engaged in the weapon industry and involved in the production of weapons while adopting technologically advanced techniques for the development of upgraded military equipment. The physical location of military production houses is also considered to be an essential part of MIC. The persuasion of such policy increased the military spending of states by maintaining culture of weapon production. The involvement of principle contractors, prime subcontractors, experienced consultants, main education centres, highly skilled technicians and state-owned installations engaged in manufacturing of weapons by applying the newly discovered hi-tech methods in armament industry express the level of MIC in a particular country. The notion of MIc, in other words, is observed to be an undefined or a loose coalition of influential people or powerful groups who successfully create an active connection between their economic-institutional-political interest and hi-tech...