Imagining a world where all of our bonkers stupid defense research spending had any focus on cost at all. Very hilarious that you can just use a drone with a bomb attached to do the exact same shit that someone in Langley got twenty billion dollars to design and it costs more than it would to feed and house someone for their entire life.
the best part is, since the American state only exists to direct taxpayer money to grifters, it is constitutionally incapable of learning the lesson that cheap, simple, and plentiful beats delicate, expensive wunderwaffle every fucking time
beats delicate, expensive wunderwaffle every fucking time
Gulf Wars I&II and the Iraq war?
I would argue that the Iraqi military was applying the same doctrine as the US, just with less good stuff.
