The first military-industrial complex might have been the invention of the Canaanites:
A 5,500-year-old Canaanite blade factory was recently uncovered in Israel — offering a rare link to a major group of people central to the Bible.
The ancient workshop was discovered in Kiryat Gat, a city roughly 40 miles south of Tel Aviv. The workshop is the first of its kind found in southern Israel.
The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) made the announcement in a Facebook post in late July.
“The most impressive findings discovered at the site are large flint cores, from which extremely sharp, uniformly shaped blades were produced,” the IAA said.
“The blades themselves were used as knives for cutting and butchering, and as harvesting tools, like sickle blades.”
It is probably safe to assume that harvesting and butchering other people and nations with the produced blades was the eventual preoccupation of this facility as opposed to having only an agricultural purpose. Indeed, the result was that the Canaanites, despite their expertise in making such weapons of war, were driven out of Israel entirely by the Hebrews who, it seemed, had few weapons of their own but more often picked up the weapons of those who they conquered. Likewise, there are traditional stories about such weapons and the technology to make them being brought by fallen angels/watchers. Since the battles Israel won against the Canaanites were being managed by God, the implication would seem to be that those who make the deadliest weapons are eventually going to have those very same weapons used against them to their detriment.
That this is a highlighted discovery now probably means the Kingdom is moving to dismantle the kinds of modern technology that are relied upon for war–or at the very least–it is moving to dismantle the kinds of people who like to make weapons as a way of life.