Edward Dowd: Trump is Building a Wartime Command Economy Without Declaring War"This is a test run. He is setting precedent to apply this model across sectors..."
By Edward Dowd January 8, 2026 Trump is building a wartime command economy without declaring war. He's not trying to reform the defense sector. He's preparing to subsume it. Strip the optics. What he's doing is establishing direct state control over strategic capital flow using loyalty pressure, populist framing, and fiscal levers. He's not negotiating with defense executives. He's declaring them subordinate. This is a test run. He is setting precedent to apply this model across sectors: •Energy will be next. The pattern is simple. Any industry touching sovereignty, logistics, or frontier technology will be absorbed under mission-state logic. Private firms will still hold the equity, but the state will dictate the capital structure, production cadence, and narrative frame. Buybacks are forbidden. Dividends are conditional. Salaries are capped. Output is mandatory. Time is compressed. It's a shift from incentive alignment to compliance enforcement. From persuasion to control. From "make defense great again" to "you now work for me." No modern president has dared cross this line because it exposes how thin the veil of corporate independence actually is when national purpose is invoked. Trump just crossed it. And the deeper layer: this only works if he's confident the military, capital markets, and the public will comply. That's the real signal. He knows they will. Or he knows enough of them will that the others won't matter. This is how American Caesarism starts. Not with tanks in the streets. With cash flow commands. Related articles:
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Trump is building a wartime command economy without declaring war
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Trump is building a wartime command economy without declaring war
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Until he runs out of countries to go into. I just posted that meh-hee-co is next(at least the cartels are next.)Bombs away!
I don't mind if it works and the spics don't launch a "burrito bomb" into Grand Rapids.
--GRA
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