The Aerospace Industries Association, a trade organization for the aerospace and defense industry, recognizes this challenge: the AIA's Commission on the Future
of the U.S. Aerospace Industry recommends «that the
nation immediately reverse the decline in, and promote the growth
of, a scientifically and technologically trained U.S. aerospace workforce,» adding that «the breakdown
of America's
intellectual and industrial capacity is a threat to national security and our capability to continue as a world
leader.»
Quite apart from the mistakes and sins
of her own
leaders, the Church in Europe in the years since the Enlightenment has faced constant pressure from revolutionary violence,
intellectual contempt, ideological atheism, idolatry
of the
nation state, two disastrous world wars, and mass genocides.