Neither organised their industrial war effort soon enough or comprehensively enough to cope with a prolonged war of attrition.
In 1954 he was invited to Japan to give a series of lectures which were subsequently credited by the Japanese with having been the basis of their quality-focused post-war industrial economy.
The discussion of war finance and industrial mobilisation already shows the shape of eventual defeat for the central powers.
During these years, the American economy transitioned from its focus on industrial production to support the war effort, to one led by consumption.
For a rapid acceleration in the absence of a war premium, the industrial commodity likely needs global economic fortunes improve, he said.
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Less hubristic and more informed leaders would have realised that both countries had the manpower and industrial resources to prevail in a war of attrition.
Where after the war Attlee established the case for the NHS, state education and a welfare state, Thatcher, after the industrial wars of the 70s and the Cold War, won the arguments for a market-based economy, the private ownership of key industries and services, limits on trade union power and a strong defence policy based on the Atlantic Alliance.
These clubby, consensual arrangements served Germany well for several decades after the war, winning the country an enviable industrial peace.
Mr Son has talked of creating an Internet zaibatsu, a reference to Japan's pre-war holding companies that combined financial and industrial interests in large conglomerates.
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It talks about a new sort of Internet zaibatsu, a reference to the giant pre-war holding companies that combined financial and industrial interests in sprawling conglomerates.
In this context, then, it is interesting to watch the evolution of Panasonic, the heritor brand of Matsushita, a venerable name that never quite reached the status of zaibatsu or keiretsu (another type of Japanese conglomerate), but still narrowly missed being broken up in the industrial reforms that took place in post-World War II Japan.
At the outset of that time, the United States redirected the massive industrial resources it had built up to win the biggest war in history into a consumer economy.
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There was no such protest about Mr Libeskind's glass-shards war museum in Manchester, because it sits amidst cleared industrial dereliction as, indeed, do all the new buildings on the Tyne.
But just as the industrial revolution was built on coal, the post-second-world-war economy was built on cheap oil.
Its industrial-growth model has closely resembled Japan's in its post-war boom, rising on the same tide of an expanding workforce and export-led productivity gains.
Other suspicious chemical discoveries in Iraq since the beginning of the war have, after additional testing, turned out to be pesticides or other industrial chemicals.
After the first world war he was involved in research into shell shock, which he later likened to the condition of certain industrial workers.
The public relations war over the solar trade fight between the U.S. and China heated up Wednesday with two industrial heavyweights, Dow Corning and DuPont, warning that the dispute could disrupt the solar supply chain.
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