Back to 1930s war economy


AMERICAN author Mark Twain quipped that history does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes.

With European economies promising to up their defence expenditure to 5% of gross domestic product (GDP), are we repeating the 1930s, when the Western powers all used defence spending to pull themselves out of the Great Depression?

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