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The people urging an increase in defence spending are pursuing an anti-productivity agenda, in which one of our worst sectors would receive ever more funding. And where will that funding come from?

Only four warships have been torpedoed since World War II. One of them was India's INS Khukri, the first and only Indian Navy ...