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Today it’s less an industrial complex and more a graft and lobbying complex. Look at the amount of equipment US has lost in Vietnam - 10,000 aircraft, includin
by ClumsyPilot 2y ago
Today it’s less an industrial complex and more a graft and lobbying complex.
Look at the amount of equipment US has lost in Vietnam - 10,000 aircraft, including strategic bombers! incomparably more ammunition. Those losses were considered sustainable!
Now it can’t produce enough dumb artillery shells!
- danielheath 2y agoUS military doctrine doesn't _use_ dumb artillery shells, because it assumes total air superiority.
- ClumsyPilot 2y agoThat’s a questionable assumption, but fine - look at production capacity of air to ground missiles, or whatever it is that you think is relevant. You will find that US can only produce a fraction of what it could in 1970’s.