[DIRTYSECRET]

A rather interesting article worthy of one's undivided attention. The subject is an Indian-born fella, only 43 years of age who thinks outside the box. It reminds me of when our cost-cutter speaker Newt suggested the Pentagon should be turned into triangle. Trump's gotta be thinking along these lines.

[DIRTYSECRET]

**the F-35 “has no founder.” A $2 trillion program was spawned entirely inside the procurement bureaucracy. “We started in the mid-’90s, and it’s basically just working now.**

We’re doing something wrong big time. This sounds just like California’s high-speed rail boondoggle. Think Wollman Skating Rink. Too many entrenched bureaucrats guarding their turf could get us all killed. That’s serious.

[pfflier]

Many people are fixated on the "Arsenal of Democracy" era of WWII when we had years to ramp up and convert for war production.

Few realize that a non-nuclear peer conflict would be over in days, not years. The winner will be the one who still has the most marbles left after the first exchange.

[KTM rider]

tanks and war ships are becoming obsolete

. replaced by remote controlled drones manufactured in Asia

the US military will have to wait on shipments of military drones to arrive in sea containers from China, just like Ukraine and the string line controlled attack drones they bought off E-Bay with US funding and developed/piloted by US contractors

we are entering the age of robot warfare and the M.I.C. is way way behind on this change in warfare

[Openurmind]

There is a huge difference between supplying just ourselves with needed deterrence and supplying half the world with deterrence and paying for it out of our own pockets...