>national government commands, local supplies are about the worst of all possible worlds for high knowledge, long lead time, heavy research industries Yet DARP

>national government commands, local supplies are about the worst of all possible worlds for high knowledge, long lead time, heavy research industries Yet DARPA and company are behind like half of modern IT technology. >Which is why you saw the Soviets do pretty well at heavy industry, but not so well at computers Soviets were fairly behind the US in electronics to begin with, and they had massive production problems everywhere, including heavy industry(turns out that setting every price and production quota from Moscow wasn't really effective). It's just that heavy industry was easier.