Can we set up a system to occasionally bomb our industrial base to get these benefits? Your point is mostly irrelevant. US steel could have innovated or even c

Can we set up a system to occasionally bomb our industrial base to get these benefits? Your point is mostly irrelevant. US steel could have innovated or even copied - but it didn't. The idea that poor US steel couldn't compete because other startups had an advantage is assinine. That is a core message of the article itself.