“Our Pentagon and military contractors: Dumb and Dumber”
My father was an Army officer many years ago- he’ll be 92 very soon. In the late 1950s, early 1960s he was at the Pentagon.
At that time the Army and the DOD had people who kept track of vital industries and made sure that they that they were able to supply critical equipment when needed and that the firms weren’t sold to potential adversaries.
I marvel that we have fallen so far from this wise practice. Apparently this office must have been dissolved. I can only imagine it is another aspect of the ‘religion of globalism’ that seems to infect so many of our elites, both business and political. Fools.
The DoD also used to keep tabs on raw material supplies like Mo, Ni and Cr. These days they should include the Rare Earths.