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For something written in 1994, the last chapter of this was ... very very prescient about the decline of the defence-industrial base https://t.co/vdVLtvwB8y
Kelly Johnson: The Swede Who Transformed American Air Power
nationalinterest.org
We have a existential manufacturing problem in America.
Why aren't there Amazon/Tesla-scale gigafactory warehouses filled with CNC machines? Will we ever be able to make our own products again? How do we accelerate the turnaround of American manufacturing?
I asked this question a few months ... See more
Andrew McCalipx.com
But analysts in the Navy’s official think tank came up with a new strategic idea: finite deterrence . All the U.S. needed, they argued, was enough nuclear weapons to destroy the 100 largest cities in the Soviet Union; this could be done with a mere 640 mis -siles in 40 submarines
Asterisk Magazine Issue 01 Inaugural Issue
In late 1970, Lockheed was near bankruptcy because of the large debt they had built up to fund the L-1011 Tristar commercial aircraft program. They approached the Nixon administration for a $250 million loan guarantee to avoid insolvency. That is about $1.9 billion in today’s dollars. Here was an opportunity to transfer the assets to a private defe... See more