Until you hear that the UK only replaced the word 'War' with 'Defence' in 1964 after nearly two hundred years: so there were long precedents and we may wonder what all of the fuss is about in the US this week?
That aside, it is a remarkable fact that the number of defence contractors in the US has shrunk in recent years from 193, to just 3 (and there is a citation for that, but I don't do appendices).
In the UK, effectively there is only one, which also required renaming: from British Aerospace to BAE Systems. It would have to, really, because (mine excepted) few boats are designed to fly.
For this week they just sold five frigates to Norway for the defence (war?) of the Atlantic... so well done them!
