[1] Its goals were to research, reassess and reduce the influence of the military in US economics and politics.
[1] Its founder chairman was Harold Willens, president of the Factory Equipment Supply Corporation, who had also founded the Business Executives Move for Vietnam Peace in 1967.
[1] Fitzgerald produced literature and conducted a program of seminars across the country on the topic of waste in the military.
[1] The BEF sent out a letter by General David M. Shoup, the former Commandant of the Marine Corps who was critical of the US foreign policy at that time, calling it "militaristic and aggressive".
Willens found this discouraging, considering that the business community was too cautious and conformist, "Corporate executives are acting in accordance with an established set of priorities, including being popular, fashionable, promoted and invited to the White House.