Editing Catch-22 (section)

=== Military-industrial complex ===
While the military's enemies are Germans, none appear in the story as enemy combatants. This ironic situation is epitomized in the single appearance of German personnel in the novel, who act as pilots employed by the squadron's mess officer, [[Milo Minderbinder]], to bomb the American encampment on Pianosa. This predicament indicates a tension between traditional motives for violence and the modern economic machine, which seems to generate violence simply as another means to profit, quite independent of geographical or ideological constraints which creates a [[military–industrial complex]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://thegemsbok.com/art-reviews-and-articles/book-reviews-tuesday-tome-catch-22-joseph-heller/|title=Rocks and Hard Places Galore: The Bureaucratic Appropriation of War in Joseph Heller's Catch-22|last=Podgorski|first=Daniel|date=October 27, 2015|website=The Gemsbok|series=Your Tuesday Tome|access-date=February 21, 2016}}</ref> Heller emphasizes the danger of profit-seeking by portraying Milo without "evil intent". Milo's actions are portrayed as the result of greed, not malice.<ref name="Sorkin 1993 150">{{cite book|title=Conversations with Joseph Heller|last=Sorkin|first=Adam J.|publisher=University Press of Mississippi|year=1993|isbn=0-87805-635-1|location=Jackson, MO|pages=150}}</ref>