A thing I believe with medium confidence: One reason many institutions today are weaker than counterparts were generations ago was that allocation of smart people got more efficient for certain definitions of efficient, and institutions no longer benefit from so much free lunch.
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(This assumes that the US government can't source them from a factory in China; it reads to me as trivially possible if you let the US do that.)
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Not sure. Doubt slave labor makes good swords if you make them by hand. Could probably machine-produce them, but I suspect it would take time to do the sword engineering and turn it into a good mold or whatever.
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Not sure if/how this counts but r/Blacksmith has 78,000 members. If you offered a bounty for swords on the Internet you might be surprised with what shows up. The ability to coordinate is a hell of a superpower, which is not available to US gov due to regulations.
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