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As someone who spent 20 years in uniform active and reserve . . . this is unadulterated tinfoil-hattery.
by psunavy03 2y ago
As someone who spent 20 years in uniform active and reserve . . . this is unadulterated tinfoil-hattery.
- paganel 2y agoYou were most probably still at grunt-like level by the time you left, this is a very recent article co-written by Mark Milley and Eric Schmidt: America Isn’t Ready for the Wars of the Future [1] You must of have also missed the tens of billions of dollars (and more) that the people in DC are now more than happy to throw at the US IT industry, all in the name of national security. And you think they’re going to kill one of their golden geese for competition-related reasons? That’s just delusional. [1] https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/ai-america-ready-wars-future-ukraine-israel-mark-milley-eric-schmidt https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/ai-america-read...
- psunavy03 2y agoAh, the old "you disagree with me, therefore you must have only been a stupid grunt" argument. If they broke up Google, DOD could contract with the remnants as easily as they contract with Alphabet today. If anything, deficiencies in the defense sector are because of forced consolidations and mergers stifling innovation and competition post-Cold War, not the opposite. DOD suffers when it can only contract with a few dated apathetic behemoths. Look at Boeing vs. SpaceX. But feel free to make believe that I wasn't a senior officer when I hung it up.