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Mobilization Through Cooperation: The New Defense Industrial Base

Mobilization Through Cooperation: The New Defense Industrial Base
The fuselage and wing components for the Consolidated B-24 -E Liberator four-engine heavy bomber being assembled for service with U.S. Army Air Force (USAAF) at the Ford Motor Company Willow Run B-24 Liberty Bomber aircraft assembly plant circa December 1942 near Detroit, Mich. Keystone View Company/Archive Photos/Getty Images
Arthur Herman
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A revolution is underway in America’s defense industrial base. It isn’t just about integrating new technologies or making more weapons faster, and smarter, and cheaper, although that lies at the core of any successful manufacturing enterprise. It’s also about rediscovering the lessons learned during World War II and combining those proven techniques with the new approaches and technologies of today, to shore up U.S. defense and provide deterrence for the next century.

Arthur Herman
Arthur Herman
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Arthur Herman is senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and director of the Quantum Alliance Initiative. He's also the Pulitzer Prize Finalist author of nine books, including “Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II” (2012); “1917: Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder” (2017); the New York Times best-seller “How the Scots Invented the Modern World” (2001), and co-author of “Quantum Computing: How to Address the National Security Risk.”
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