Not to mention the rare earths which Trump has just tariffed, the Australian ones anyway, the only non-Chinese source America has, this is getting to feel like a bunker finale
Nearly 900 billion a year and it took us a few months of fighting a third rate power to nearly exhaust our standoff weapons.
At the same time the administration is asking for 1.4 trillion to be pumped into the same broken procurement system that got us here.
Its long overdue for the military to seriously address the procurement issue. Five years into the war in Ukraine and nothing major seems to have changed. The entire air force is now built around extremely expensive air frames that mostly operate using extremely expensive stand off weapons.
We're in an unbelievably dangerous moment. Drastic action is needed. Ukraine has been a revolution in military affairs and we've not risen to meet it.
And as Tim Cook so poignantly put it “All the tool and die makers in the US could fit in this room…” Good luck growing those in a hurry.
Not to mention the rare earths which Trump has just tariffed, the Australian ones anyway, the only non-Chinese source America has, this is getting to feel like a bunker finale
Nearly 900 billion a year and it took us a few months of fighting a third rate power to nearly exhaust our standoff weapons.
At the same time the administration is asking for 1.4 trillion to be pumped into the same broken procurement system that got us here.
Its long overdue for the military to seriously address the procurement issue. Five years into the war in Ukraine and nothing major seems to have changed. The entire air force is now built around extremely expensive air frames that mostly operate using extremely expensive stand off weapons.
We're in an unbelievably dangerous moment. Drastic action is needed. Ukraine has been a revolution in military affairs and we've not risen to meet it.
And Trump has just tariffed Australian rare earths, the only non-Chinese source, America is really f*cked