Opinion: It Is Time To Rebuild The Defense Industry’s ‘Middle Ground’
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P-51 Mustang fighters being manufactured at the North American Aviation factory in Inglewood, California, around 1942.
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Many authors in these pages have written about the lack of a “middle ground” in a defense industry characterized by huge, agglomerated companies with billions of dollars in annual revenue and many smaller, technology-driven firms at the lower end with turnover in the millions of dollars—but few in...
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