Comment by mr_toad
11 days ago
> America needs to increase manufacturing capacity if it wants to maintain hegemony and possibly world peace.
This argument is based on experiences in WWII, i.e. the previous war. You need to be cautious about basing military doctrine on the previous war. I’m not sure the next war will be won by churning out aircraft carriers.
Regardless of what economies will be churning out to fight war, it will more than likely be the side that churns out more stuff that wins.
If not aircraft carriers then what sort of physical objects do you think will critical in winning the next major war?