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• If you are due to meet a member of the US government to pitch some 3D printing scheme or other idea, you’d do well to bring a copy of Freedom...
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If you are due to meet a member of the US government to pitch some 3D printing scheme or other idea, you’d do well to bring a copy of Freedom Forge. The 2013 book showcases how maverick businessmen helped win World War II for America and subsequently helped establish an American Century. Currently, it’s in Vogue among the machine-oiled fingernails to power lunches, the Beltway crowd that has their hands, grubby from either or both Maine Jumbo Lobster or Mobil Vactra #2, on the purse strings of US military spending on advanced manufacturing.
It is clear that the current crop of businessmen in the US is not helping the country win wars. Quite the opposite, in fact. The US looks weaker than it has ever been, save for when the British and Canadians burned Washington, D.C. in 1814. The US has,