Using the RNZAF as a case study, this feature article (.pdf attached) explores the 1946 U.S. Lend-Lease settlement.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/48717728
A New Zealand study covering where they could have done better by following Taiwan.
What NZ can learn from Taiwan about pandemic preparedness
Note that Taiwan has full democracy and the economy is hardly affected by covid. It also, unlike NZ and others, has politicians and a population that...