**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.
**President FDR raided General Motors in 1939 for its production genius. For nearly a year before Pearl Harbor, and before Germany’s subsequent declaration of war against the U.S., William Knudsen was already on the job, organizing U.S. defense production.
Hitler and Tojo knew to fear America’s slumbering industrial mass. The counterfactual is unresolvable. Had Washington acted sooner, who knows? World War II might have been avoided.**
I didn’t know that. Lefties get in the way. Negotiations first and the naive assurance that’s the way to go.