We'll also soon be eclipsed on the technological front. Losing our leading position in semiconductor manufacturing is, I suspect, the first in what will become a pattern. And once we lose economic prominence, military superiority will quickly follow. In 1939, the U.S. Army was the 39th largest in the world, and the country produced just 3,000 military aircraft. In the next five years, the U.S. produced 300,000 aircraft: https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/the-war/war-production.