Engineers of Victory
The problem-solvers who turned the tide through war production.
Kennedy identifies the five operational problems that had to be solved to defeat the Axis — submarines, air power, amphibious landing, strategic bombing, logistics — and traces how they were solved by mid-level engineers, tacticians, and organizational designers working below the level of grand strategy. The pattern is the same one that determines outcomes in large-scale infrastructure projects: the top-level vision matters less than the problem-solving culture two levels below it.