Thank you; really appreciate this comment! Short on time, so briefly:
I will basically affirm that you are right about Israel (overall) being a supporting example;
I still disagree about WW2 and was aware of things you mentioned. I think I would need to think more but at least my initial comment wasn’t appropriately qualified. Further, severe economic necessities (a constant shortage of metals/grains/oil, which the USSR covered only partially) might make it self-defeating.
Methodologically, yeah, ex-post cherry-picking is bad as most of the successes are unseen (when war actually doesn’t happen like between NATO and USSR/China). But enormous trying isn’t in itself supportive as not all bloated prestigious buerocracies are doing a reasonable job.
Thank you; really appreciate this comment! Short on time, so briefly:
I will basically affirm that you are right about Israel (overall) being a supporting example;
I still disagree about WW2 and was aware of things you mentioned. I think I would need to think more but at least my initial comment wasn’t appropriately qualified. Further, severe economic necessities (a constant shortage of metals/grains/oil, which the USSR covered only partially) might make it self-defeating.
Methodologically, yeah, ex-post cherry-picking is bad as most of the successes are unseen (when war actually doesn’t happen like between NATO and USSR/China). But enormous trying isn’t in itself supportive as not all bloated prestigious buerocracies are doing a reasonable job.