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Last Supper

Defense industry consolidation geared up well before the “Last Supper”

July 15, 2022 Eric Lofgren 0

The end of the Cold War and the “Last Supper,” where defense officials actively encouraged mergers between contracts, are often credited with the major consolidation […]

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Peter Theil talks defense industry consolidation

September 7, 2021 Eric Lofgren 0

Robert O’Brien: One of the things we’ve seen that’s happened faster than the experts thought — particularly over the last decade — is that the […]

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Markets rewarded defense industry consolidation and exit well before the “last supper”

March 4, 2021 Eric Lofgren 0

Of course defense companies start consolidating after World War II, and then again in the 1970s after the Vietnam War. Many observers see industrial consolidation […]

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William Hartung on Lockheed Martin and the military-industrial complex

March 25, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

William Hartung joins me on the Acquisition Talk podcast to discuss his book, Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex. […]

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