> Should we get into a big war, we'll likely need mass production of military vehicles and having mass production of consumer vehicles is a good start.

And all those military vehicles we build will be destroyed by tiny fpv drones that cost a tiny percent of what the vehicles cost.

Why do people cling to this WW II era idea that we need car factories in case we go to war?

Those tiny fpv drones pack a tiny punch. Sure, it will destroy a current generation Chevy Equinox. But two weeks after the war starts, countermeasures will be created. The vehicles will be changed to make them harder to find, and harder to kill. A small drone will be rendered ineffective by small countermeasures. As much as I dislike the current US administration, Ford moving to making missiles and other military hardware is a good idea. They sure can't build a cost effective vehicle; yet there is a lot more potential profit in a Standard Missile, not to mention less competition.

Gotta move infantry some how. If they're being destroyed all the time, gotta build new stuff.

Last world war, a lot of the mass production facilities got pushed into building munitions too. Harder to do that without manufacturing facilities.

It's truly shocking that westerners still believe in fancy military megafauna.