Is this the same commission that previously warned America “might struggle to win, or perhaps lose, a war against China or Russia? Would that be the same Russia that can't win a war of its own choosing against Ukraine, an immediately-adjacent former satellite with a GDP the size of Nebraska's?
And their carefully-considered recommendation is to raise taxes and cut nonmilitary spending to massively increase US armor and airpower in Europe? The same kind of weaponry getting obliterated by teenagers flying $1000 Chinese-made drones with grenades duct-taped to them?
Instead, how about:
- A top-to-bottom audit and "rightsizing" of military procurement and operational spending.
- Vulnerability assessment of legacy weapon paradigms in the age of drones.
- Extension of service life of existing systems.
Defense industry shills gonna shill but The Economist should be embarrassed at credulously retweeting this claptrap.
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Is this the same commission that previously warned America “might struggle to win, or perhaps lose, a war against China or Russia? Would that be the same Russia that can't win a war of its own choosing against Ukraine, an immediately-adjacent former satellite with a GDP the size of Nebraska's?
And their carefully-considered recommendation is to raise taxes and cut nonmilitary spending to massively increase US armor and airpower in Europe? The same kind of weaponry getting obliterated by teenagers flying $1000 Chinese-made drones with grenades duct-taped to them?
Instead, how about: - A top-to-bottom audit and "rightsizing" of military procurement and operational spending. - Vulnerability assessment of legacy weapon paradigms in the age of drones. - Extension of service life of existing systems.
Defense industry shills gonna shill but The Economist should be embarrassed at credulously retweeting this claptrap.