The Drive: You Have To Hear What Keeps The Head Of U.S. Strategic Command Up At Night
It's not Kim Jong Un or Vladimir Putin.
Out of all the presentations and panels at this year's Air Force Association convention, one speaker in particular had a most important, brave, and sobering message. A message that goes against the "company man" attitude we seem to find in many of the military's top brass, and one that deals with something we here at The War Zone have been talking about for a long, long time. Instead of worrying about Kim Jong Un's missiles or Putin's huge nuclear arsenal, what keeps the head of Strategic Command, General John Hyten, up at night is the cold hard fact that America's defense industrial complex has lost the ability to "go fast."
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WNU Editor: You will have to go to the 25:48 mark at the above video. The Pentagon's unsustainable procurement practices are a mark change from what the Pentagon was able to do in the 1950s and the 1960s .... no doubt about that. The Pentagon's business/management culture has clearly changed since then .... and what is frightening is that all the signs are indicating that the situation is going to get worse.
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Meanwhile, CEOs of companies like Boeing, Rathean, and Lockheed sleep great...
I wonder how easy (or quick) it will be to replace F-18s and 16s, or M1s - not to mention f-35s and LCSs and carriers - when a serious conflict erupts between the U.S. and another state actor, when we start losing equipment in large numbers?
The U.S. and Soviets were able to push the Germans back to Berlin because they were able to churn out the equipment faster than it was destroyed, and faster than the more advanced German counterparts could be built. And the U.S. was able to completely replace its Navy, plus some, shortly after Pearl Harbor, while the Japanese couldn't keep up. Imagine fighting WWII with today's "Military Industrial Complex" in place...
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