They’ll never catch up with us unless we surrender, and don’t forget it!
They own us financially.
Our great strength is our ability to innovate. Our great weakness is that we have a deepstate that does everything in its power to strangle innovation. The biggest threat to genuinely new and advanced military equipment is a deepstate operated Defense acquisition process that strangles innovation. No one in DC has a good word to say about the process, but for every dollar that goes into development, production or engineering a couple of dollars go into useless strangling bureaucracy. The federal employees are only the tip of the iceberg. The real cost is all the useless contractors filling all the high-rise office buildings encircling the beltway. Not one of them does a damn thing towards actually making something that works.