Frankly, military spending needs to be reduced as a result of procurement 'redesign'. The bloat is bureaucratic and needs to be trimmed with a flame thrower.
Oh, I agree redesigning the procurement process to be less wasteful is an absolute must.
Encouraging pop grow is an answer to budgetary issue, that is true.
One problem there is the beancounters' desire for "do everything" solutions which wind up costing way more than a suite of specialized tools would.
Well that, and fights over who's Congressional district is going to be where the project is based/run.
Which just makes it worse because the people who supply the military have an incentive to spread production out across as many States and Congressional districts as they can.
We are overextended, oddly enough. Our ships are not getting the overhauls and deep maintenance they need, largely because of Congress's penny-pinching. We need a lot of ships to actually cover the obligations we're forcing the USN though, and what we have isn't enough.
The Navy has issues eith a lot of that due to manning above all else
It's not just manning I'm afraid, it's the fact that they're literally running their ships ragged in addition to their crews. They're not designed to be such a high tempo constantly without extensive and deep maintenance and overhauls.
Yeah, and if the Navy is undermanned, overworked, underpaid, and overstretched, it means the US's most potent tool to actually meeting the commitments/goals DC wants is a shell of what it should be.
This is the biggest heaping of BS I've ever seen, and I've seen some pretty hefty BS in my time... even spouted by me in some cases. The sad reality is that economies of scale are backed by reality to the hilt, and you need those scales to face the new threats. Bigger, is sadly, better when it comes to governments.
No, it isn't. That's beyond stupid, because if you try that then you'll have world trade grind to a halt, and that would restart the cycle of war again, but now with nukes. You assume nukes stopped wars. Here's the thing, they didn't. It's (practically in the economic and political sense) free trade that made wars of WW1 and 2 and Korea a thing of the past. If that metaphorical price tag -for any reason- rises beyond 'dirt cheap', we'll be back doing World Wars within a decade.
If this guy is who I think he is, then even he failed too. People have tried to demonize cities since the first city-states. You can't push back against what is essentially a law of the universe (economies of scale) and human health and wellbeing recognition (i.e. more numbers is better). The only reason that the urban/rural divide didn't become prominent until just under two centuries ago is that cities had a higher death rate than their birth rate, only held up by the influx of rural immigrants.
City life is pretty trash. too expensive. no space. too much crime. too many people who you just pass by and have every excuse to just be an asshole cause they will likely never meet you again. no real advantage now that internet is a thing and deliveries go everywhere. decentralization is the way to go.
