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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. $147m is less than 90 minutes worth of DoD budget.
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Part of it iirc is the explosion at camp minden( local to me) company buried so much rocket propellent, one of bunkers blew up, whole plant has been shut down since. It was only plant making the black powder propellent for certain artillery rounds, plant is like ten miles from house
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only gun makers benefit from more guns and wars
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"but, but, drones..." they said let's all be honest here neither U.S. nor NATO has ever "fought" a war since Vietnam War rather, they just bullied their way against weak countries, in which they still didn't really win from a cost perspective, e.g. 20 years in afganista ended up being kicked out by "sheep herders" taliban meanwhile, china, russia, iran, and north korea are all watching closely the military industrial complex and defense contractors are making weapons to help U.S. win wars, but to sell for profits 400$farther
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why not use the shiny gadgets then? If we have go back to use artillery shells and the shiny gadgets are too dangerous to use, why war?
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