seems like americas biggest disadvantage in future wars is the fact that our military industrial complex is dominated by sclerotic incumbents who make money by bribing congress to buy shitty expensive equipment am i wrong about this
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im skeptical the next conventional war lasts long enough for this to happenhttps://twitter.com/Aslaklakaslak/status/1336743201168822275?s=19 …
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im thinking a lot about the Billy Mitchell problem now tldr he argued that battleships were going to get creamed and advocated for aircraft carriers before WW2, this got him court martialed because the admirals LIKED battleshipspic.twitter.com/NSNtS6AxOs
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the problem is the following everyone KNOWS this is a problem billy mitchell is a sterling example but not the only such case so why the hell do people keep doing this hypotheses: 1. hard to know when Mitchells are real vs charlatans 2. intractable org problems
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probably both are true but based on this im leaning toward #2https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002 …
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oh very interesting about the above very interestinghttps://twitter.com/fire__exit/status/1336759194985390081?s=19 …
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another series of counterargumentshttps://twitter.com/DoppelMark/status/1336759006782742530?s=19 …
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amazing thread about military simulated battles https://twitter.com/PhilthyPhil2012/status/1336769338192273408?s=19 …
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So Nancy can commute without being touched by the plebs? Oh, you mean military personnel…
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could just operate em like we do drones no? (??)
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