{"id":193118,"date":"2009-01-18T16:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-18T21:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/18\/the-1990s-defense-industry-consolidation-did-not-save-money\/"},"modified":"2009-01-18T16:50:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-18T21:50:00","slug":"the-1990s-defense-industry-consolidation-did-not-save-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/18\/the-1990s-defense-industry-consolidation-did-not-save-money\/","title":{"rendered":"The 1990s Defense Industry Consolidation Did Not Save Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The report here only applies to <a href=\"http:\/\/defensenews.com\/story.php?i=3905850&amp;c=AME&amp;s=SEA\">a study of consolidation of U.S. shipbuilding operations<\/a>, but having worked in the defense industry over that period, I can tell you it did not work there either.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, you saw bizarre expensive workshare arrangements to preserve the only two entities capable of producing a weapon system, because if you only had one, then it makes sense to nationalize the industry.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Rubinomics applied to the military-industrial complex, and a failure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The report here only applies to a study of consolidation of U.S. shipbuilding operations, but having worked in the defense industry over that period, I can tell you it did not work there either. Instead, you saw bizarre expensive workshare arrangements to preserve the only two entities capable of producing a weapon system, because if &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,1161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement","category-naval"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}