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But there are tons of those missiles. Are they in danger of running out? There's gotta be a surplus of some ordnance that could be better spent as food. I kn
by lifeformed 13y ago
But there are tons of those missiles. Are they in danger of running out? There's gotta be a surplus of some ordnance that could be better spent as food. I know the budget doesn't really work that way, but it's pretty surreal how much money is consumed in a war. One bomb could put pay for a scholarship for a lot of those soldiers.
- jacques_chester 13y agoMilitary logistics is a hard problem. There's no market telling you what to produce and in what quantities. How do you know in advance that it would be better to have 30,000 mortar heads in your local base stockpile vs access to a loitering B-52 two days in the week? Answer: you don't. You can't. You basically have to make elaborate guesses and accept that you will be wrong a lot of the time, with all the concomittant waste that comes along with it. Especially since some such tradeoffs take decades to fully play out (eg. the JSF would be great in a war against an advanced industrial enemy ... which ... who?).