A draft copy of the new National Defense Industrial Strategy says American companies can’t build weapons fast enough to meet global demand.
America’s defense industry is struggling to achieve the kind of speed and responsiveness to stay ahead in a high-tech arms race with competitors such as China, an unreleased draft of a new Pentagon report on the defense industry warns.
The first ever National Defense Industrial Strategy, which is set to be released in the coming weeks by Pentagon acquisition chief William LaPlante, is meant to be a comprehensive look at what the Pentagon needs in order to tap into the expertise of small tech firms, while funding and supporting traditional companies to move faster to develop new tech.
As it stands now, the U.S. defense industrial base “does not possess the capacity, capability, responsiveness, or resilience required to satisfy the full range of military production needs at speed and scale,” according to a draft version of the report, obtained by POLITICO.
How the defense industry sees itself🎶Never before has a
boymilitary industrial complex wanted more.🎶Oh wait…
US defense spending is close to a trillion. China’s is less than a third of that.
And how about an effin audit. No?
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pentagon-fails-audit-sixth-year-row-2023-11-16/
Mostly because the US has to actually develop and research new weapon technology and China just copies everything so they don’t need to spend as much.
I sincerely doubt the situation is as dire as they’re claiming considering our fucking defense budget.
Fuck off.
Fight climate change, not wars.
But what about climate wars
Might be onto something there hehe
Defense spending prevents wars.
STFU, moron.
Strong fact-based argument, pal.
War mongers want more weapons
I like how we got the “Pentagon slaps solar panels on its roof” piece the same day as this.
But sure, it wasn’t a puff piece to try and get you to ignore the fact that the pentagon is the singularly largest source of emissions on the planet.
(( not enough)) … “to satisfy the … needs…”
USA should re-evaluate its “need” to support Israeli’s genocide in Gaza.
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stop tryin? can we move on from producing human killing devices?
Sure. Done. Welcome to the United States of China.
yep, its all or nothing, right?
we either have to blow more money than we could possibly spend on saving humans on the production of killing of human devices for ‘defense’
we have to spend more than our next 20 allies ‘Combined’ for our ‘defense’. right.
we have to create jhuman killing devices and sell them all over the planet to other countries for our defense. right.
cuz right now our priority is spending trillions of dollars to protect us from no one that can invade us … cept china, who already indicates they dont want a ww3. totally worth it
Dunno, you’re the one that insinuated the nothing bit.
fair, but misses the point
Problem is, do you really want China as the military superpower?
i think one of the primary purposes of the military should be to find ways to no longer need a military.
not to justify its own existence by becoming a glorified welfare program for companies and humans that cant do something constructive.
the world is changing. colonialism is dead
i do not fear china, no
i do not fear china, no
That’s nice. Unfortunately, all their neighbours do.
i think one of the primary purposes of the military should be to find ways to no longer need a military.
How exactly would the military ever accomplish that? That’s a task for the non-military side to accomplish.
if it is not part of your mandate to not exist, you will find ways to make sure you always exist. “the military” is a necessary evil. not sure about you, but i think we should be working to remove evil… even in-house.
the trillion dollar military is not even kind of right-sized for the actual threats to our country. its so grossly over-sized it is hard to fathom.
How, exactly, would the military find a way to remove the need for a military? Short of world domination, and even then they’d still need the military force to stay in power. You can’t make a mandate when there’s no reasonable route to accomplishing it.
