Next twitter live read for pandemic, Freedom’s Forge, on WW2 industry/economic mobilization recommended by @jamesgiammona
Let’s see how this one goes. https://amzn.to/39IlHMP
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Alright, this is gonna be a Great Man story. 2 in fact: William Knudsen who left presidency of GM to head up office of production management, OPM under Roosevelt (funny how the OPM hacked by Chinese was “Personnel”), and Henry Kaiser, construction cartel boss turned shipbuilder
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“Their foes weren’t German or Japanese soldiers but Washington politicians and bureaucrats, shrill journalists, military martinets, the denizens of Big Labor as well as Big Government — and sometimes the forces of blind date.” Ok, it’s clear what sort of book this will be
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Apparently 20x as many people were killed or injured in the war machine compared to the actual war
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Now learning about the Nye committee which investigated WW1 production machine in the run-up to WW2. So that’s where the phrase “merchants of death” comes from. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nye_Committee …
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Damn the neutrality/non-engagement decades were really anti-military: “From the 4th biggest military force in the world in 1918, the US Army shrank to number 18, just ahead of tiny Holland”
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Roosevelt started rearming in 1936, years before officially dipping neutrality and joins the war. If you want peace, prepare for war?
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Damn, early on Patton ordered nuts and bolts for tanks at his own expense from the Sears catalog, they were so short
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Am also reading about that in Loonshots in parallel
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Replying to @vgr
If you want to go deeper, Tuxedo Park (the book) does a good treatment of it
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