should the government nationalize the weapons industry?

Question

would it make it easier for the military to mobilize during times of sudden war?

Answer 1

No, not at all. Most civilian industries have contingency plans for producing military hardware in the event of emergency. If you remove the fierce and very talented level of competition from the contracting system we have, you will end up with inferior equipment. Ask the Soviet Union. No nationalization of the defense industry!

Answer 2

Converting the companies to publicly-controlled, nonprofit status would introduce a key change: it would reduce the entities’ impetus for aggressive lobbying and campaign contributions. Chartering the defense contractors at the federal level would in effect allow Congress to ban such activities outright, thereby controlling an industry that is now a driving force rather than a servant of foreign policy objectives. As public firms, they would certainly continue to participate in the policy fora designed to determine the nation’s national security and defense technology needs, but the profit-driven impetus to control the process in order to best serve corporate shareholders would be eliminated. Thus, by turning defense and security firms into full public corporations, we would replace the criteria by which their performance is judged from quarterly earnings targets to criteria that is more consistent with the national interest.
The final dilemma raised by the extensive use of private contractors involves the future of the military itself. The armed services have long seen themselves as engaged in a unique profession, set apart from the rest of civilian society, which they are entrusted with securing. The introduction of private military firms, and their recruiting from within the military itself, challenges that uniqueness and the military professional identity. Its monopoly on certain activities is being encroached on by the regular civilian marketplace.

Answer 3

No! The goal should be to prevent war, rather than find ways to mobilize for war. The USA has a powerful military machine and quick mobilization problems are more with transporting men and equipment.

Answer 4

It is unethical to have a war industry. It is like speculating on peoples blood!! The war-industry ensures that there will never be an end to war because these stinking rich businessmen would never let their money flow curtailed even if it meant peace in the world.

I think until we have a better alternative to nation, nationalization of military industry is the best ethical option

Answer 5

No way dude. Not on my life.

I got to machines making clips for belted ammo. The DOD contracts with dozens of small shops nation wide making the same clip. That way in-case of a regional disaster the supply of clips would not be interrupted.

Go big Red Go

Answer 6

With the USA constantly being threatened, why not? People may be taking up arms to defend their own homes if things continue down the path it is going.

Answer 7

let it be,were fine as it is

Answer 8

When will you give up!!!??