.@kwharrison13 of @contrary explains how the DoD "strangled the golden goose" of US industrial capacity and became a bureaucratic mess:Post-WWII, the US was dominant:— 40%+ of global manufacturing capacity— The DoD drove ~36% of global R&D"We were spitting off one bomber plane per day."We didn’t always win by being technologically superior, but by outbuilding everyone.Then came a shift.In the 1960s, Robert McNamara became Secretary of Defense and decided defense spending was too high.Enter the P