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spare parts necessary to keep machinery in working condition. There is something to be said for poor worksmanship and planned obsolescence.
The missed opportunities for using the spare parts, new or used, as a force in our international affairs are numerous.
For example; in the 1950s, Russia had reached an agreement with the Ford Motor Company for the construction and operation of a Ford plant in Russia and with the Firestone Rubber Company to build a tire factory in Russia. Both proposals were stopped by our State Department when John Foster Dulles was Secretary of State. Had the projects gon through, the Russians by now might be hooked on the automobile as we Americans are. If so, because of the cost of the automobile culture, their military potential would undoubtedly be reduced significantly. They would also need spare parts. And quite possibly, Russians driving Pintos of the original design, especially vulnerable when struck from the rear and riding on highly unstable Firestone 500’s, might well develop a serious sense of uncertainty, possibly even an inferiority complex, and even lose their militant spirit.
In the years since the end of World War II, the U. S. has continued to be a major arms supplier to the world but the power of spare parts has not gone unnoted. That power has been used only modestly and relative only to conventional or nonnuclear arms, such as tanks
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