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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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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would private militaries have this problem?
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*Sidelong look at Fortune 500 companies Yes?
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While history is on his side, I do wonder with stories like this whether he was just a real pain-in-the-ass and the formal reason was just a cover to get rid of him
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The issue is that he was a decade or two early, carrier-borne aircraft in the 1920s weren't capable enough to prove credible threats to battleships and the carriers built in the 20s proved to be massively less capable than the carriers built in the 30s and 40s.
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He was right about the core idea (aircraft carriers) but wrong about the specifics (level flight bombers; most successful air attacks against naval targets in WWII were dive bombers or torpedo planes).
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