Technical competence and political reliability do not necessarily coexist in military institutions. The Kriegsmarine provides an example: its small inherited officer cadre limited political selection at senior levels, unlike larger expanding organizations. Deliberate rivalry between departments can protect a dictatorship while making military and industrial coordination harder. The counterfactual consequence is an America less able to reproduce the unified wartime production effort associated with the historical Roosevelt administration.
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Why politics can weaken industrial mobilization
Political purges and competing agencies would make an authoritarian America less capable of coherent rearmament, despite the common assumption that dictatorships are efficient.