Arms production and defense companies are back in the public spotlight. Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine and rising geopolitical tensions have boosted governments’ demand for arms and prompted concerns for supply-chain and production capacity.[1] A recent analysis by The Financial Times found that, despite “swelling” backlogs, “the order books of the world’s biggest defence companies…
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H-Diplo|RJISSF Review Essay 89: Pemberton on Cooling, Arming America through the Centuries
War seems to have attracted more scholarly interest through the years than virtually any other subject. Amazon lists upwards of 50,000 books for sale on World War II alone.[1] Vastly under-covered, on the other hand, has been the business of war—how its forces have been supplied, through what systems, by whom and at what cost.[2]