The Congress convinced itself to spend more than a trillion dollars in the effort to maintain the United States Defense Industrial Base and it was all for nothing. The military cannot repair submarines in anything like a timely manner leaving up to 40% of the submarine fleet welded to their piers and unusable in any conflict and it certainly cannot ramp up production of ships and submarines because that just doesn't work anymore despite the trillions of dollars and it cannot ramp up production of artillery, ammunition, missiles, air defense systems, Patriot missiles and batteries and is, in short left holding an enormous bag empty of any capability at all.
Not really a surprise. Various people have been pointing out how hollow all the real world achievements are given the amount spent on them.
More than that though is that the US military idled the Tomahawk production line a decade ago because they thought they had enough missiles for any conceivable action (they never actually figured out what a war would use in terms of missiles fired and needing replacement, they just thought about how many to subdue X number of Libyas or milk factories in Somalia.)
I just heard a chat where some LTGEN had to tell DoD and possibly Congress that multiple successive war games had the United States getting whipped and whipped badly by the Chinese if there was a war.
Heads should roll but they won't.
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It wasn't a lie it was money laundering, pure and simple. Our foreign aid doesn't help anyone other than the perpetrators.
Have they stopped artificially handicapping the adversary (limiting actions/reactions and understating capabilities) in their current war gaming?
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I used to work for a DoD munitions contractor. It is really easy to use ammunition and ordnance faster than it can be made. Especially if you have to deal with the usual red tape and government engineers that have never worked in the real world, only government.
Oh heads will most certainly roll, but not from the sword of justice; I suspect that it will be from the efforts of a more studied and capable adversary, perhaps that as you have noted above, and the heads will likely be dispatched from bodies of many innocent. Perhaps there will be a few ‘leaders’ that may part of the collateral if that will bring some consolation. Suffering…. there will be plenty and provided in copious amounts and for an extended period of time.
By the Chinese? Hell, they'd be whipped badly by anything more capable than the US Women's Soccer Tea,. That would probably be a draw.
As an old sailor, the state of the modern Navy (as well as the other services) pisses me right off.
--Tennessee Budd
Oops, "Team".
--TB
Throwing money at a problem never solved it. Especially when most of that money gets diverted into the pockets of special interests. Add in the fact that the education system no longer educates but indoctrinates and it's no wonder that American Industry is dying. Nobody coming out of the school system these days is either capable of or willing to actually work.
Look what happened last time when the Chinese bombed Pearl Harbor! Don't try it again...FAFO....
Chinese? Try Japanese on Dec 7th, 1941
Unless you're making a funny?
I think so. They may still play the bigger games the politicians attend with the fakery but among themselves playing the games late at night I think they inject as much realism as possible into the game rules.
I found that once a govie engineer got something in his head it was impossible to shift it. Literally impossible to get that guy to understand the issues.
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