Why have companies opted out of government contracting?
The issue that Jeb and I got started with in puzzling over was the question of Pentagon acquisition and the ways in which Pentagon acquisition […]
Arthur Herman
The emergent order of industrial mobilization during WWII
In January 1941 defense spending rose to triple what it had been during the previous six months. By July it quintupled, and December it jumped […]
How the US auto industry scaled and improved Army tanks in WWII
One of the first things he [Bill Knudsen] does in the process, he makes a call in the summer of 1940 to his pal KT […]
Can Israeli defense management help guide the U.S.?
For the Pentagon, developing and deploying a major new system like this can take more than a decade. By contrast, the Israel Defense Ministry gave […]