Some people say that the US military industrial complex is part of our culture. IF someone even brings up the subject, big US media will silence them and label them a nut an iconoclast and unpatriotic.

Culture is is thought of as an ethnic people, dance, food, clothing or language.

What we are really talking about here is what we could call Kulture.
The concentration of economic power and violence judges what kulture is. Kulture is what an Islamic state or a Military Industrial State says it is.