Excellent research by @lauramdubois.ft.com and @chriscook.news in the Financial Times this morning. The key point: if you fund defense industries, they are more likely to expand. The ASAP program has demonstrably increased artillery shell production in Europe. www.ft.com/content/ce61... 1/2
I still (rethorically) wonder why the Public sector has not taken the lead in the last 11 years, if the Private sector was reluctant to invest in defence public goods.
This experience now needs to be scaled and applied to other sectors, especially missiles. Some comments from on this in the article. 2/2
Plenty of practice of how to do this in WW1 and WW2.