The United States spends far more on military expenditures than any other country in the world; they too are also by far the largest exporter of military equipment than any other country in the world. Yet, when it comes to the manufacturer of consumer cars and trucks, the United States is not the industry leader in sales, or reliability, or on any other metric that could possibly be thought of. How is it possible that America is so proficient and skilled in providing military equipment which countries all over the world readily use to protect and defend their country, but on the other hand are so easily surpassed in quality in regards to passenger vehicles?
One way to answer that question is to say that quite obviously the sophistication and knowhow behind military equipment does not necessarily translate the same for consumer cars, which is true, but what is also true is fundamentally military equipment must be reliable, accurate, and effective for its given task or its utility is suspect. This means that the same care, testing, and redundancy so often put to good use for military articles should be part and parcel in regards to the manufacture of consumer vehicles. This means that in reality, the cars manufactured in the United States, should often be industry leaders in regards to performance, sustainability, and reliability, but not in cost. That is to say, in short, the very best cars in the world and the most state-of-the-art vehicles should be being built right here in America, to which our knowledge gained from stringent military testing and knowhow should in one sense or another be translatable into the cars that we sell and drive.
The United States spends an incredible amount of money on research and development for the military industrial complex year after year, to which no country in the world is even in the ballpark of our dedication to such. While, no doubt, the bulk of such expenditures mainly have relevance for the military sector, there are also many items or new usage of materials that have immense crossover appeal to the consumer vehicle market in the sense of not only the sophistication of the instrumentation created but also the blending of materials and chemicals in such a way that strength is added while at the same time losing bulk or weight, so that these new amalgamations are a very good fit for vehicles.
The military industrial complex should have an obligation to more often spend time and share resources with our domestic vehicle manufacturers so that each may benefit the other, and ultimately so that the United States can consistently built some of the very best vehicles in the world, that encompass sophistication and knowhow that only can come from the combined efforts of our military equipment manufacturers and domestic vehicle manufacturers actually working together for that very purpose.
There is no reason why our tax dollars should not as a matter of course, help to benefit our domestic as well as our defense manufacturers, since strength comes not only from military might, but also from creating the best products that can be bought throughout the world.