Both Mills and Domhoff saw the military as having much less power and being dominated by the corporate rich through the executive branch.

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While both C. Wright Mills and G. William Domhoff discussed the power of elites in American society, Mills, in his work "The Power Elite" (1956), argued that the military was one of the three main components of the power elite, alongside corporate leaders and political leaders. Domhoff, on the other hand, focused more on the role of the corporate rich and social upper classes in his analysis of power structures, as seen in his book "Who Rules America?" (1967). Mills did not argue that the military was dominated by the corporate rich through the executive branch; instead, he saw it as a crucial part of the elite power structure alongside corporations and the government.

Both Mills and Domhoff Saw the Military as Having Much