Absolutely shocking story about the failures of industrial policy that have now manifested in NATO ammunition shortages in Ukraine. Years ago the U.S. government basically decided that artillery shells are obsolete and stopped making them. Now Ukraine is outgunned in a war of attrition with a rival that never gave up producing these types of cheap munitions necessary for grinding warfare. American defense contractors are too focused on cashing in on shiny gadgets often more useful for counterterrorism than fighting a genuine war.

reuters.com/investigates/special-report/ukraine-crisis-artillery/

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newspapers really struggle to report on institutional failure because ~nobody knows systems engineering. so they operate blind, stuck with facts but no quantitative map of the land.

for example "expensive flop....$147m on a facility" is an irrelevant detail. $147m is less than 90 minutes worth of DoD budget.