The military is not a perfectly competitive market because

A) there is only one buyer, i.e., the government, for military goods/services.
B) there is imperfect information, i.e., intelligence branches.
C) there are heterogeneous goods/services because each military branch provides different goods/services.
D) All of the above


D

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