Defense spending doesn’t just add demand to an economy. It pulls machine time, skilled labor, energy, transport capacity, and working capital away from civilian production.
Author: Sergio Pearson
How Uralmash and Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant Rebuilt Technical Documentation When Western Spare Parts Disappeared
When Schaeffler confirmed in March 2022 that it would suspend FAG-branded bearing deliveries to Russian industrial customers, the concern at Uralmash in Yekaterinburg was not
How Defense Spending Reshapes Civilian Industry: A View from the Shop Floor
Introduction: The Dual-Use Dilemma in Heavy Industry When a foundry in the Urals stops casting turbine housings for a hydroelectric plant and starts pouring armored
How Defense Spending Affects Civilian Industrial Capacity: A View from the Shop Floor
Defense spending isn’t just a budget line—it’s a physical claim on steel, machine tools, skilled hands, and logistics capacity. When the state ramps up military
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In March 2023, a mid-sized agricultural machinery assembler in Rostov Oblast submitted a new tractor variant for inclusion in the Unified Register of Russian Industrial
Why Industrial Policy Is Making a Global Comeback
The global return of industrial policy is not a theoretical debate. It is a material shift in how states allocate capital, structure supply chains, and
The Problem With Measuring Economic Health Only Through GDP
Walk through a Russian factory floor today and you’ll feel it before you can measure it. The vibration of a machine that’s been patched together