Issues such as how to find new contracts and gradually convert the armaments industries (for example adapting the aeronautics industry for the information technology business) and finding investors to soak up the unemployed, have become paramount in the minds of Western governments.
如何找尋新訂單，如何逐步將軍火工業轉型，例如原先的航太工業轉為電子通訊等民生工業；如何尋求投資者以吸納失業人口等等，就成為歐美政府的當務之急。