Planning for economic conversion.

It's time to start planning the conversion of the United States' defense economy to civilian work. Conversion here means political, economic and technical measures for assuring the orderly transformation of labor, machinery and other economic resources now being used for military purposes to alternative civilian uses. A major factor in the United States' decline to the status of a second-class industrial power has been the voracious appetite of the military-industrial complex, which employs 6.5 million civilian and military personnel in more than 135,000 factories, laboratories and bases.