Who cares about that? How much does Raytheon make warehousing a fifty year old dumb bomb? Let’s keep our “national defense” priorities straight here.
“Who cares about that? How much does Raytheon make warehousing a fifty year old dumb bomb? Let’s keep our “national defense” priorities straight here.”
...and the thing is, we COULD have had both - private companies, but paying them to keep facilities, inventory, and skilled workers around for the day that Victoria Nuland’s lifelong dream of going to war against Russia was fulfilled. Yes, it would have added 5 to 10 percent to defense spending, but it was possible. But no, we turned our military industrial base into a skeleton of what it was...and then went on a warmongering rampage.
Really smart.