Yes, but we're only spending 6% of the overall national budget. You're missing the point. These numbers mean that you can do this shit 16x over, globally while operating at-cost. We could have 16 different Russia-Ukraine Wars right now, if we bothered to spend at this level of efficiency.
The efficiency would plummet off a cliff if the US even tried to approach that level of conflict.
This is incredibly GDP brained thinking. The numbers are not immutable facts that exist as a natural law, ultimately you have to produce those items in the real world. Trying to support that many conflicts at once, which would be fighting on a scale of a world war, would see the US forced to spend 30-40% of it's GDP on war.
Yes, but we're only spending 6% of the overall national budget. You're missing the point. These numbers mean that you can do this shit 16x over, globally while operating at-cost. We could have 16 different Russia-Ukraine Wars right now, if we bothered to spend at this level of efficiency.
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The efficiency would plummet off a cliff if the US even tried to approach that level of conflict.
This is incredibly GDP brained thinking. The numbers are not immutable facts that exist as a natural law, ultimately you have to produce those items in the real world. Trying to support that many conflicts at once, which would be fighting on a scale of a world war, would see the US forced to spend 30-40% of it's GDP on war.