Just in Time—a Carry-Out Arms Race
Rallying to the cry that you can’t keep a good man (or industry) down, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman and Rockwell pulled the expected rabbit out of the hat. Just when the Iraq war was winding down or heating up, depending upon your Washington allegiance, those armaments guys played the China card.
Rallying to the cry that you can’t keep a good man (or industry) down, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman and Rockwell pulled the expected rabbit out of the hat. Just when the Iraq war was winding down or heating up, depending upon your Washington allegiance, those armaments guys played the China card.
And you thought China wasn’t a friend. You thought they wanted all that Barbie-Doll production to themselves, ignored our needs and were content with churning out millions of pirated CDs. Well, when the chips are down, business truly is global and, as long as the flat-panel TV orders are holding up, why not throw your big…