I remember, no one even back in 1980 could really say they were wrong. The Four Tigers which later followed Japan’s lead, and now China, and others, would agree.
Yet, without subs to ours, and our ‘quote’ allies’ markets, no Japanese ‘robber barons’ would have been able to buy the time of day, much less land, in Hawaii in 1985, (Midkiff) barely 40 years after Pearl Harbor.
An export trade economy, absent military responsibilities, can be a way of gathering strength over a long period.
Bin Laden had been subsidized to fight the Soviets.
Policy makers’ horizons on whom, where, how, and why to subsidize, have been short and blinkered.
American cities, and industries without overt military implications, have largely been left out.
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